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| A hydrocarbon with one or more carbon-carbon double bonds |
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| A vinyl group plus a methylene group: CH2=CH-CH2- |
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| A stable bridged bicyclic compound cannot have a double bond at a bridgehead position unless one of the rings contains at least eight carbon atoms |
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| The heating of petroleum products in the presence of a catalyst (usually an aluminosilicate mineral), causing bond cleavage to form alkenes and alkanes of lower molecular weight |
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| The elimination of a halogen (X2) from a compound. Dehalogenation is formally a reduction. |
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| the elimination of water from a compound; usually acid-catalyzed |
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| The elimination of hydrogen from a compound; usually done in the presence of a catalyst |
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| The elimination of a hydrogen halide (HX) from a compound; usually base-promoted |
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| Constitutional isomers that differ only in the position of a double bond. Double-bond isomers hydrogenate to give the same alkane |
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| A structural feature that results in two fever hydrogen atoms in the molecular formula. A double bond or a ring is one element of unsaturation; a triple bond is two elements of unsaturation |
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| A compound with two halogen atoms on the same carbon atom |
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| Any atom other than carbon or hydrogen |
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| The least highly substituted alkene product |
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