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Alkenes

By admin • Mar 17th, 2008 • Category: Uncategorized

ALKENES

What are alkenes?

Alkenes are a family of hydrocarbons (compounds containing carbon and hydrogen only) containing a carbon-carbon double bond. The first two are:

ethene
C2H4

propene
C3H6

The general formula being: CnH2n

Isomerism exhibited by the alkenes

Structural isomerism

All the alkenes with 4 or more carbon atoms in […]