Alkanes

• What are alkanes?

  Saturated hydrocarbons
• What's the general formula?

  CnH2n+2
• What does saturated mean?

  All carbon carbon bonds are single bonds
• What's heterolytic fission?

  Bond unevenly breaks with bonded atoms receiving both electrons from the binded pair

  2 different substances can be formed - cation and anion
• What's homolytic fission?

  The bond breaks evenly and each bonding atom receives one electron from the binded pair

  2 electrically uncharged radicals are formed

  X-Y -> X• + Y•