Non-aromatic rings
What Non-aromatic rings means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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One way in which the carbon and hydrogen of an aliphatic compound are joined together.
The ring arrangement of an alicyclic compound, which must not be aromatic.
Topics that use Non-aromatic rings
- Basic concepts of organic chemistry (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Alphabetical ordering of substituents
- Aromatic compound
- carboxyl group
- Characteristic reactions
- Condensed notation with brackets and subscripts
- Contrast with heterolytic fission
- Curly arrow notation
- delocalised electrons
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