Alkanes & Cycloalkanes
This is the general molecular formula for straight-chain alkanes.
What is CnH2n+2?
What is a double bond?
This is the suffix used for naming alkanes.
What is "ane"?
An -OH group identifies this family of compounds.
This is the condensed structural formula for methane.
What is CH4?
This term describes the type of bonds found in alkanes.
What are single bonds?
The simplest alkyne with the formula C2H2
What is ethyne?
This is the correct name for CH = C- CH3
What is propene?
A carbonyl group at the end of a chain identifies this functional group.
What are aldehydes?
This is the number of hydrogens in hexane (C6H__).
What is 14?
This is the name of the alkane with 5 carbon atoms.
What is pentane?
Alkenes have this general molecular formula
What is CnH2n?
This prefix indicates a 4-carbon branch.
What is butyl?
This functional group contains nitrogen bonded to one or more carbon groups.
What are amines?
Drawn as a ring containing three carbons, this is the name of the smallest cycloalkane.
Cycloalkanes have this general formula.
What is CnH2n?
This is the name for CH3 - CH = CH2
What is propene?
This is the correct name for a chain containing an OH group on carbon 2 of propane.
What is 2-propanol?
This functional group has a carbonyl bonded to -O- in the middle of the molecule.
What are esters?
This functional group appears in CH3 - O - CH3
What is an ether?
This is the name of the cycloalkane with 7 carbon atoms arranged in a ring.
What is cycloheptane?
Compounds with the same molecular formula but different orientation around a double bond.
What are cis-trans isomers?
This functional group with the formula -COO- appears in compounds with this suffix.
What is an ester?
This functional group contains a carbonyl attached to a nitrogen.
What are amides?
This is the molecular formula of butyne?
What is C4H6?