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You are correct, there are 10 theoretically resolvable proton environments. Chemdraw doesn't deal well with diastereotopic methylene units, but in reality you would probably be able to distiguish them with a big enough magnet.There are 7 unique proton environments in 2-bromopentane.The issue of whether the protons are experimentally distinguishable is another one entirely...