ChemistryCode 5070
Alkanes
What this topic asks you to be able to do
- State that alkanes are saturated hydrocarbons whose bonds are all single covalent bonds
- Describe alkanes' properties as generally unreactive, except with regard to combustion and substitution by chlorine.
- State that a substitution reaction involves swapping one atom or group of atoms out for a different atom or group of atoms
- Describe how alkanes undergo substitution with chlorine in a photochemical reaction, where ultraviolet light supplies the activation energy, Ea, and, limited to monosubstitution, draw the structural or displayed formulae of what is produced