Chemistry › Section T · Organic chemistry › Topic T.1
Hydrocarbons
Compounds of just two elements, carbon and hydrogen, fuel our homes and cars and are the raw material for most plastics. Learning to name them, and to see how single, double and triple bonds change their behaviour, is the foundation of all organic chemistry.
In this topic
- Carbon, the great connector
- Alkanes: the saturated hydrocarbons
- Naming branched alkanes
- Worked example: naming a branched alkane
- Worked example: the three isomers of C₅H₁₂
- Alkenes and alkynes
- Cis and trans isomers
- Addition reactions
- Worked example: predicting addition products
- Aromatic hydrocarbons
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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