Chemistry A-Level
Consequences for alkane reactivity
What Consequences for alkane reactivity means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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Alkanes react with few reagents and mainly by combustion or free-radical substitution rather than addition or substitution by polar reagents.
Topics that use Consequences for alkane reactivity
- Alkanes (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Bond angle of about 109.5°
- Distinguishing σ-bonds from π-bonds
- Effect of branching on boiling point
- Effect of carbon-chain length on boiling point
- Electron pair repulsion between bonding pairs
- Free rotation about σ-bonds
- Further substitution giving polyhalogenated products
- Incomplete combustion products
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