Answer to Question #100413 in General Chemistry for Devin

Question

C4H6O2 (btw the 4,6,2, are suppose to be small numbers

Answer 1

As we can suppose, the presented compound is, for example, crotonic acid or trans-2-butenoic acid:

However, the indexes of this formula cannot be divided by factor 2 since the resulted molecular formula C₂H₃O corresponds to no really existing compound.