The heats of combustion, heats of formation and resonance energies of the isomeric five-carbon fatty acids and of their methyl and ethyl esters have been determined. Based on previously reported isomerization energies of six-carbon alkanes, resonance energies of the acids and esters have been corrected for the chain-branching effect to obtain values which do not differ significantly among a group of isomers.
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