"Alkanes lack functional groups, so they do not undergo the kinds of electrophile – nucleophile reactions typical of functionalized molecules. In fact, alkanes are pretty unreactive. However, under appropriate conditions, they undergo homolytic bond cleavage to form radicals, which are reactive species containing odd numbers of electrons. This is another situation in which the structure of a class of compounds determines their function."
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K. Peter C. Vollhardt, Neil E. Schore (2011) Organic chemistry : structure and function 6th ed. Chapter 3. Reactions of Alkanes
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