Hydrocarbons

Today was the first day we looked at the two most common types of hydrocarbons: alkanes and alkenes.

We used some experiments to compare and contrast alkanes (saturated hydrocarbons) and alkenes (unsaturated hydrocarbons).

Here are some videos from Year 12 Chemistry (2013) which should jog the memory banks:

Then, we looked at what happens when there are two possible products from addition reactions with alkenes: