Question

What are saturated and unsaturated compounds called?

Answer 1

In organic chemistry , saturated compounds are the compounds that have single carbon-hydrogen bonds only .

Examples : Alkanes .

Unsaturated compounds are the compounds that contains either at least one double bond or triple bond along with carbon-hydrogen bonds.

Examples : Alkenes , Alkynes .

Your question :-

What are saturated and unsaturated compounds called?

Saturated hydrocarbons are called alkanes

Unsaturated hydrocarbons are called alkenes or alkenes .

Reasons :-

Alkanes are called saturated compounds because each and every atom of carbon has a bond with hydrogen and every bond is satisfied.There is no lone pair of electrons .

Alkenes and alkynes are called so because they have at least two carbon which have lone pairs of electrons .

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