The rapid disappearance of the amber color of the bromine at room temperature is characteristic of reaction with alkenes. (colorless) (purple) (colorless) (brown ppt.) Reaction of an alkene with ...

He thought if he could form those rings from alkenes, he could get to the cleavage ... to work on understanding the copper-catalyzed reaction and incorporating less expensive nitrogen sources.

This causes a smoky flame. Alkenes have a functional group C=C – the part of the molecule that takes part in reactions. Alkanes, in contrast, do not have a functional group and are less reactive ...

Straightforward skeletal editing chemistry now enables the direct insertion of nitrogen into carbon–carbon double bonds.

Hydrocarbons – because they contain hydrogen and carbon only. Unsaturated – because they contain at least one C=C. Each alkene containing one C=C has two fewer hydrogen atoms than the ...

One-pot reductive hydroformylation of alkenes provides a facile and atom-economic method for the synthesis of single-carbon homologous alcohols. However, the reaction catalyzed by a stable and ...

To get around this, the altered enzyme was submerged in liquid salt and exposed to UV light while combining with fatty acids to initiate the reaction. The yield of alkenes produced as a result was ...