Straight-chain saturated hydrocarbons

Saturates are a group of hydrocarbons composed of only carbon and hydrogen with no double carbon-carbon bond. They are the predominant hydrocarbon classes that comprise crude oil. Saturates include straight chain, branched chain, and cyclo alkanes (paraffins). 

Paraffins - saturated hydrocarbons, straight or branched chains but no ring stmctures ... 

Open-chain saturated hydrocarbons have the generic names alkanes and paraffins. In this article, terms such as hexanes, heptanes, and octanes are synonymous with C, C, and Cg alkanes, respectively, and do not refer to the straight chains of 6 carbons, 7 carbons, and 8 carbons, as defined in the lUPAC system. 

The straight-chain hydrocarbons represent just one group of straight-chain hydrocarbons, the saturated hydrocarbons known as the alkanes. There are other series of hydrocarbons that are unsaturated one of those is important in the study of hazardous materials. Additionally, the first hydrocarbon in another series is the only hydrocarbon important in that series. Each of these hydrocarbon series are briefly described below. 

Normal alkanes (n-alkanes, n-paraffms) are straight-chain hydrocarbons having no branches. Branched alkanes are saturated hydrocarbons with an alkyl substituent or a side branch from the main chain. A branched... 

Alkanes are a class of saturated hydrocarbons with the general formula C H2n. -2- They contain no functional groups, are relatively inert, and can be either straight-chain (normal) or branched. Alkanes are named by a series of IUPAC rules of nomenclature. Compounds that have the same chemical formula but different structures are called isomers. More specifically, compounds such as butane and isobutane, which differ in their connections between atoms, are called constitutional isomers. 

One large and structurally simple class of hydrocarbons includes those substances in which all the carbon-carbon bonds are single bonds. These are called saturated hydrocarbons, or alkanes. In the alkanes the carbon atoms are bonded to each other in chains, which may be long or short, straight or branched. 

Saturated hydrocarbons do not lose CH3 from a straight-chain compound. 

The reaction described is of considerable general utility for the preparation of benzoyloxy derivatives of unsaturated hydrocarbons.2"8 Reactions of 2-butyl perbenzoate with various other classes of compounds in the presence of catalytic amounts of copper ions produce benzoyloxy derivatives. Thus this reaction can also be used to effect one-step oxidation of saturated hydrocarbons,9, 10 esters,6,11 dialkyl and aryl alkyl ethers,12 14 benzylic ethers,11,15 cyclic ethers,13,16 straight-chain and benzylic sulfides,12, 17-19 cyclic sulfides,11,19 amides,11 and certain organo-silicon compounds.20... 

Paraffins, saturated hydrocarbons with straight or branched chains but without a ring structure. 

Paraffins Saturated straight-chain, aUphaUc hydrocarbons that have five to ten carbons. A common... 

Straight chain saturated hydrocarbon molecules from propane (C3H8) to octane (CgHis) were deposited from the vapor phase on platinum and silver(l 11) crystal surfaces in the temperature range 100—200 K. The ordered monolayer was produced first and then, with decreasing temperature a thick crystalline film was condensed and the surface structures of these organic crystals were also studied by LEED ... 

The straight-chain hydrocarbons represent just one group of straight-chain hydrocarbons, the saturated hydrocarbons known as the alkanes. There are other series of hydrocarbons that are... 

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