Properties of the even number that doesn't satisfy the Golbach's Conjecture.

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This is a little vague question, but I think this is the best place to ask it.

We haven't found an even number which cannot be written as a sum of two primes, but mathematicians must have studied that what sort of properties such a number should have.

I am asking about those properties.

For example if $n$ is an even number which cannot be written as the sum of $2$ primes then

$n\neq 2p$ for $p$ prime

Because if $n=2p$

$n=p+p$ therefore it can be written as the sum of $2$ primes which contradicts the definition of $n$

So $n$ can't be twice a prime.

Are there any properties like these which mathematicians have found?

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We can ask ourselfs where not to look for a counterexample to Goldbach. However, there are not too many helpful elementary properties known. The case $n=2p$ has been mentioned already. Another case is that even numbers with a higher than $0.5$ density of primes among the totients are guaranteed to have a Goldbach partition. So if there is a counterexample to strong Goldbach, it is in the region where this density is below $0.5$.