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Author Topic: What is the proper chemical chemical structure of caffeine?  (Read 240 times)
ZeTron57
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« on: December 03, 2009, 04:15:39 PM »

Hello -

Ive seen at lest three different structure versions of caffeine around the internet.

Chemistry daily lists it as:



Wiki is:


and on various coffee mugs and shirts:



Every site seems to reference another site... What is actually correct?

Thanks

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« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2009, 09:49:52 PM »

Both of them are correct and same also .
There is no difference in the structures you have shown posted here.
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« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2009, 12:08:00 PM »

OK. I see. I was thinking so, but was not sure if it was kosher to just flip H3C into CH3.

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