Hydrocarbons

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Hydrocarbons
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Organic Compounds

• Contain the element carbon, and usually hydrogen.
• Hydrocarbons

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Carbon

• Carbon has 4 electrons available for sharing.
• Can form single, double, triple bonds.
• Can never form more than four bonds.

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Prefixes
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Alkanes

• Hydrocarbons that have only single covalent
  bonds.
• Simplest is CH4 (methane)
• Carbons can also bond to carbons in alkanes.
• Names always end in ane.

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Examples

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Alkenes

• Have at least one double bond.
• Simplest is C2H4 (ethene)
• End in -ene

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Examples

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Alkynes

• Have at least one triple bond.
• End in -yne

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Examples

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Alcohols

• Organic compounds made of oxygen as well as
  carbon and hydrogen.
• Hydroxyl groups (-OH)
• End in ol

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Examples

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