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ACID CHLORIDES
What are acid chlorides?
acid chlorides as “acid derivatives”
A carboxylic acid such as ethanoic acid has the structure:

There are a number of related compounds in which the -OH group in the acid is replaced by something else. Compounds like this are described as acid derivatives.
Acid chlorides  are one example of […]

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 […]