Alkanes

Carbon chains have three patterns
straight
circular
branched

Alkanes are saturated hydrocarbons with only single bonds containing only Hydrogen and Carbon.
The names of alkanes end with ane and have a corresponding prefix with the number of Carbons
1-meth
2-eth
3-porp
4-but
5-pen
6-hex
7-hept
8-oct
9-non
10-dec
These are examples of straight carbon chains



Side branches can be added to the main/ parent chain to form branched chains.
The groups added to main chain are called alkyls.
We will explore alkyls in more detail in our next post