Hydrocarbon
A hydrocarbon is a chemical compound containing only hydrogen and carbon.[1][2] Naturally occuring hydrocarbons, in the form of crude oil and natural gas, have been of immense industrial and economic importance since the nineteenth century.
Hydrocarbons may be subdivided into aliphatic and aromatic examples. Aliphatic hydrocarbons can be further classified, depending on whether they are saturated or unsaturated, and on whether they are acyclic or cyclic.[note 1]
Notes and references
Notes
- ↑ Aromatic hydrocarbons are, by definition, cyclic and unsaturated; but not all cyclic, unsaturated hydrocarbons are aromatic.
References
- ↑ Glossary of class names of organic compounds and reactivity intermediates based on structure (IUPAC Recommendations 1995). Pure Appl. Chem. 1995, 67 (8-9), 1307–75 at 1341. DOI: 10.1351/pac199567081307.
- ↑ hydrocarbons, <http://goldbook.iupac.org/H02889.html> (accessed 3 April 2011), Compendium of Chemical Terminology Internet edition; International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC).
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