A dilute solution of bromine is added to samples of heptane and cyclohexene. The bromination reactions and mechanisms are compared. UV light splits the bromine molecule into two reactive radicals, ...

For the first time, chemists have discovered a unique way to control and modify a type of compound widely used in medicines, ...

Complete combustion of alkenes produces carbon dioxide and water, ... The C=C functional group allows alkenes to undergo these reactions. ... Propene, CH 3 CH=CH 2, reacts with bromine, Br 2.

Since the 1970s, several C–C bond-forming reactions catalysed by transition-metal complexes have been developed that use mild (weakly acidic or basic) or neutral reaction conditions, to address ...

Hydrocarbons called alkenes are isolated from petroleum as mixtures of isomers, often making it hard to use them as reagents for synthesis. A reaction involving a migrating nickel atom offers a ...

The alkanes, alkenes, alcohols and carboxylic acids are four different homologous series of organic compounds. Their different chemical properties are due to their characteristic functional groups.