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Chemical properties of alkane? |
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Answer» Now it\'s upto u that which one do u want to know???? Alkanes are chemically inert and do not react with acids and bases under normal condition but under drastic conditions they undergo following conditions :- 1) substitution 2) combination3)oxidation4)isomerism 5)aromatization6)reaction with steam7)pyrolysis hope u got it? and also it is very low reactivity as compared to other functional grou0 alkane , any of a group of aliphatic hydrocarbons whose molecules contain only single bonds (see chemical bond ). Alkanes have the general chemical formula C n H 2n+2 . An alkane is said to have a continuous chain if each carbon atom in its molecule is joined to at most two other carbon atoms; it is said to have a branched chain if any of its carbon atoms is joined to more than two other carbon atoms. The first four continuous-chain alkanes are methane , CH 4 ; ethane , C 2 H 6 ; propane , C 3 H 8 ; and butane , C 4 H 10 . Names of continuous-chain alkanes whose molecules contain more than five carbon atoms are formed from a root that indicates the number of carbon atoms and the suffix - ane to indicate that the compound is an alkane; e.g., alkanes with 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 carbon atoms in their molecules are pentane, hexane, heptane, octane, nonane, and decane, respectively. The name of a branched-chain alkane is formed by adding prefixes to the name of the continuous-chain alkane from which it is considered to be derived; e.g., 2-methylpropane (called also isobutane) is thought of as being derived by replacing one of the hydrogen atoms bonded to the second (2-) carbon atom of a propane molecule with a methyl (CH 3 ) group, forming CH 3 CH(CH 3 ) 2 . Chemically, the alkanes are relatively unreactive. |
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