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cycloalkane

Also known as: cycloparaffin

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classification of hydrocarbons

  • structures of common hydrocarbon compounds
    In hydrocarbon: Cycloalkanes

    Countless organic compounds are known in which a sequence of carbon atoms, rather than being connected in a chain, closes to form a ring. Saturated hydrocarbons that contain one ring are referred to as cycloalkanes. With a general formula of CnH2n (n is an…

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  • structures of common hydrocarbon compounds
    In hydrocarbon: Nomenclature of alkenes and alkynes

    …of all sizes, resulting in cycloalkenes. In naming substituted derivatives of cycloalkenes, numbering begins at and continues through the double bond.

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