Question

What are alkanes and 4 chemical properties of alkanes?

Answer 1

Answer:

A family of organic substances...

Explanation:

Alkanes are organic compounds that are saturated hydrocarbons. That means that they are only made up of single carbon-hydrogen bonds. They have a general chemical formula of CnH2n+2,n∈N.

The simplest alkane is methane, a common substance found in fuel and cow flatulence...

Answer 2

Answer:

• Alkanes are saturated compounds.

• They are very less reactive, and behave inert towards acid, bases, oxidising and reducing agents at ordinary temperature.

• They react with halogens or nitric acid when heated.

• They mainly exhibit substitution reactions like halogenation and nitration.

• They also undergo thermal decomposition or pyrolysis and combustion.