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What is haptane?

Important Questions on Carbon and its Compounds

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Write the name and structure of a saturated compound in which the carbon atoms are arranged in a ring. Give the number of single bonds present in this compound.
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Name a cyclic unsaturated carbon compound.
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What is a homologous series of carbon compounds ? Give an example and list its three characteristics.
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Write the molecular formula of ethene and draw its electron dot structure.
HARD
Write the electron-dot structure for ethyne.
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Give the name and structural formula of one member of an alkene.
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Write the electron-dot structure for ethane. 
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What do you call the compounds having the same molecular formula but different structural arrangements of atoms?
HARD
Write the names and structural formulae of all the possible isomers of hexane
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Friedrich Wohler converted an inorganic compound into an organic compound in the laboratory.
(i) Give the name and formula of the inorganic compound.
(ii) Write the name and formula of the organic compound formed.
Also, Give the molecular formula of butane and mention the names of its two isomers. Name one fuel which contains both these isomers

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Write down the structures and names of two isomers of butane C4H10.
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Giving the structure, state the number of single bonds, double bonds and triple bonds (if any) in ethene.
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Why does the element carbon form a large number of carbon compounds?
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Write the electron-dot structure for ethene.
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Classify the following compounds as alkanes, alkenes and alkynes:
C2H4,C3H4,C4H8,C5H12,C5H8,C3H8,C6H6
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Give the name and structural formula of one member of alkane.
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Give IUPAC names and formulae of an organic compound containing single bonds and the other containing a triple bond.
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Give the name and structural formula of one member of the cycloalkane.
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What is the unique property of a carbon atom? How is this property helpful to us?