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ALKANES

Alkanes are the simplest of hydrocarbons or rather the simplest family of hydrocarbons they are compounds containing carbon and hydrogen only. They only contain carbon-hydrogen bonds and carbon-carbon single bonds. The first six are:

methane
CH4

ethane
C2H6

propane
C3H8

butane
C4H10

pentane
C5H12

hexane
C6H14

The general formula being: CnH2n+2
Isomerism exibited by alkanes
All the alkanes with 4 or more carbon atoms […]

CARBIDES
All the various compounds of carbon with metals or other more electropositive elements are termed as carbides. True Carbides have the ion C4- (e.g. Al4C3). The properties of carbides resembles to those of salts. On hydrolysis they give methane and thus, were formerly called methanides. Dicarbides are compounds containing the ion C2-, these are also […]