An important and interesting group of hydrocarbons, known as cycloalkanes,
contain rings of carbon atoms linked together by single bonds. The simple
unsubstituted cycloalkanes of the formula (CH,), make up a particularly
important homologous series in which the chemical properties change in a
much more striking way than do the properties of the open-chain hydrocarbons, CH3(CH2),-,CH3.show more...