Alkane

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An alkane is an acyclic hydrocarbon containing only saturated carbon atoms, and so having the general formula CnH2n+2.[1][2]

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Notes and references

Notes

References

  1. ↑ 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 1313. DOI: 10.1351/pac199567081307.
  2. ↑ alkanes, <http://goldbook.iupac.org/A00222.html> (accessed 3 April 2011), Compendium of Chemical Terminology Internet edition; International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC).

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