How do you identify the bonds in hydrocarbons?

December 29th, 2009 | by bonds |
Jada asked:


Imagine that you are working in a lab, and you find four bottles containing hydrocarbons in the chemical storage cabinet. Outline the step-by-step procedure you would follow to identify which unknown samples have a multiple bond and which have all single bonds.

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  1. One Response to “How do you identify the bonds in hydrocarbons?”

  2. By D on Dec 30, 2009 | Reply

    HARLAN

    put each hydrocarbon in a beaker with bromine water (which is brown-orange, depending).. if there is a reaction it will turn colourless, which means the hydrocarbon is unsaturated/ has at least one double C=C bond.. there would be no reaction with a saturated hydrocarbon.
    =) I hope this helps..X

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