"Breaking an alkane down into smaller fragments is also known as cracking. Such processes are important in the oil-ref…"

"Cyclic molecules are so commonly encountered throughout organic and biological chemistry that it’s important to under…"

"Bond homolysis in alkanes yields radicals and free atoms. The heat required to do so is called the bond-dissociation …"

"When alkanes are heated to a high temperature, both C–H bonds and C–C bonds rupture, a process called pyrolysis. In t…"

"Alkanes lack functional groups, so they do not undergo the kinds of electrophile – nucleophile reactions typical of f…"

"The relative reactivities of the various types of alkane C–H bonds in halogenations can be estimated by factoring out…"

"The discrepancy between calculated and measured heats of combustion in the cycloalkanes can be largely attributed to …"

"The conformational analysis of cyclohexane enables us to predict the relative stability of its various conformers and…"

"Substituted cyclohexanes are the most common cycloalkanes and occur widely in nature. A large number of compounds, in…"

"The chair conformation of cyclohexane leads to many consequences. … the chemical behavior of many substituted cyclohe…"