Hydrocarbons
5.0 Chemical Properties
5.0 Chemical Properties
Alkanes are relatively stable to most of the common reagents at room temperature. The C - H and C - C bonds in alkanes are almost non – polar and strong, and attacking reagents find no reaction sites to which they could be attached. Random collisions between them can occur but energy of collisions is too small to react. At high temperature energies of the collisions are sufficient for breaking C - H and C - C bonds resulting in the formation of free radicals.
Stability of free radicals is in order
