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al·kene (alkēn′)

noun

any of a series of unsaturated open-chain hydrocarbons containing a double bond and having the general formula CH: these compounds are sometimes said to be in the ethylene or olefin series

Etymology: alk(yl) + -ene

alkene Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • give: This page guides you through the mechanism for the acid catalyzed dehydration of a simple alcohol like ethanol to give an alkene like ethene.
  • include: H that hydrocarbon molecules can be cracked to form smaller molecules including alkenes.
  • form: H that addition polymers can be made from alkenes formed during cracking.
  • substitute: However for tri and tetra substituted alkenes the situation is not as clear.
  • produce: Cracking is important because: it produces alkenes.
  • call: A hydrocarbon that possesses one double bond belongs to the next homologous series called alkenes.

Adjective modifier

  • unsymmetrical: The reaction with propene This is typical of the reaction with unsymmetrical alkenes.
  • symmetrical: This page assumes that you have already read the page on the addition of bromine to symmetrical alkenes.
  • non-symmetrical: So for an non-symmetrical alkene like propene, you would expect the majority reaction to be.. .
  • other: One version is simplified to bring it into line with the other alkene electrophilic addition mechanisms.
  • deficient: C 60 behaves very much like an electron deficient alkene and readily reacts with electron rich species.

Modifies a noun

  • polymerisation: Current research on such systems is also motivated by their potential use as alkene polymerisation catalysts and polymer precursors.
  • monomer: Understand that the variety of possible small alkene monomer molecules leads to a variety of different polymers with differing properties.
  • molecule: Step ( 2 ) is a chain propagation step, in which the ' alkoxy radical ' adds onto an alkene molecule.
  • metathesis: Alkene Metathesis I have been working in this field since 1994.
  • bond: Molecules containing alkene bonds may also react directly with ozone, but more slowly than with the OH radical.

Noun used with modifier

  • molecule: Know that the cracking of hydrocarbon molecules yields alkenes.

Preposition: with

  • hydrogen: State the name of the alkane formed by reacting an alkene with hydrogen 21.

Preposition: like

  • propene: So for an non-symmetrical alkene like propene, you would expect the majority reaction to be.. .
  • ethene: This page guides you through the mechanism for the acid catalyzed dehydration of a simple alcohol like ethanol to give an alkene like ethene.

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