Lesson 4 · about 20 minutes

Chains and names

From methane to octane, read and name carbon chains.

You will learn

  • The first eight alkanes, and what -⁠ane, -⁠ene and -⁠yne mean
  • How to read skeletal formulas
  • What isomers are
  • How to name an alkane with one branch

Sections

  1. Alkanes, the simplest chains
  2. Skeletal formulas
  3. Same formula, different molecule
  4. Naming branches
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