Chapter 3
Alcanes et cycloalcanes
Chapter 3
Alkanes and Cycloalkanes
The formation of carbon-carbon bonds leading to the creation of the carbon chain is the basis of organic chemistry. August Kekulé and Archibald Scott …
Organic compounds of the same molecular formula can have different structural formulas called constitutional isomers, and the phenomenon is known as …
In the late 19th-century, the number of new chemical compounds discovered increased tremendously. Hence, the necessity arose to develop a naming system …
Alkanes are nonpolar molecules due to the presence of only carbon and hydrogen atoms. The electronegativity difference between carbon and hydrogen is …
Different notations are used to represent the three-dimensional structure of molecules on two-dimensional surfaces. One of the most commonly used …
In an organic molecule, free rotation about the carbon-carbon single bond results in energetically different conformers of the molecule. Due to this …
Unlike ethane and propane that have only two major conformations, butane has more than two conformers. The staggered form of butane in which the bulky …
Cycloalkanes are saturated cyclic hydrocarbons with carbon atoms arranged in the form of rings. They have two fewer hydrogen atoms than the corresponding …
Adolf von Baeyer attempted to explain the instabilities of small and large cycloalkane rings using the concept of angle strain — the strain caused …
Cyclohexane does not exist in a planar form due to the high angle and torsional strain it would experience in the planar structure. Instead, it adopts …
The chair conformation is the most stable form of cyclohexane due to the absence of angle and torsional strain. The absence of angle strain is a result of …
This lesson discusses the stability of substituted cyclohexanes with a focus on energies of various conformers and the effect of 1,3-diaxial
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Depending upon the different spatial orientation of the substituents, the disubstituted cycloalkanes exhibit two types of stereoisomers. The cis isomers …
The low reactivity in alkanes can be attributed to the non-polar nature of C–C and C–H σ bonds. Alkanes, therefore, were initially …
This work puts forward a toolkit that enables the conversion of alkanes by Escherichia coli and presents a proof of principle of its applicability. The …
Combustion based power generation has been accomplished for many years through a number of heat engine systems. Recently, a move towards small scale power …
We introduce an approach to study the formation and growth of hydrates under the influence of nonionic surfactants. The experimental system includes a …