Alkanes and Sriram

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Shriram is a senior chemist and computer scientist in Shrirambhoomi. Shriram has been asked to find the parent hydrocarbon in a given acyclic alkane. In Shrirambhoomi, carbon has infinite valency, which means the number of carbons attached to a carbon is not bounded and can be any number. The parent hydrocarbon in Shrirambhoomi is the chain with the maximum number of substituents. Substituents in

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