Alkanes
By admin • Mar 17th, 2008 • Category: UncategorizedALKANES
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 […]
