It’s a well-established fact that there’s a lot of carbon dioxide floating around and more being released every day.

Carbon dioxide can be used to photo-oxidise alkenes into a variety of useful organic molecules under mild conditions, ...

Chemists at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung have developed a practical two-step method for alkylating alkenes via thianthrenation, addressing a long-standing synthetic challenge. This ...

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Chemists have developed a straightforward method to convert common chemicals like carboxylic acids, alcohols, and alkanes directly into valuable alkenes. Chemists from the National University of ...

The second homologous series is the alkenes. Their names all end in –ene, for example ethene. Alkenes all contain a carbon to carbon double bond which makes them more reactive than the alkanes. The ...

The general formula for the alkenes is C n H 2n (where n is the number of carbon atoms in the molecule).