In organic chemistry, an alkane is an acyclic saturated hydrocarbon. In other words, an alkane consists of hydrogen and carbon atoms arranged in a tree structure in which all the carbon-carbon bonds are single. Alkanes have the general chemical formula CnH2n+2.
In an alkane, each carbon atom has 4 bonds (either C-C or C-H), and each hydrogen atom is joined to one of the carbon atoms (so in a C-H bond). The number of carbon
atoms may be thought of as the size of the alkane.
Alkanes with more than 3 carbon atoms can be arranged in various different ways, forming structural isomers. The simplest isomer of an alkane is the one in which the carbon atoms are arranged in a single chain with no branches. This isomer is sometimes called the n-isomer. However the chain of carbon atoms may also be branched at one or more points. The number of possible isomers increases rapidly with the number of carbon atoms.
Moreover, we define an alkyl is an alkane missing one hydrogen. An acyclic alkyl has the general formula CnH2n+1. The defination of structural isomer of alkyls is similar to alkanes’.
Now you need to count the number of structural isomers of alkanes and alkyls of size n modulo 998244353.