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Aliphatic compounds are "saturated" carbon molecules. Aliphatic molecules consist, generally, of a backbone of carbon atoms and other atoms bound to this carbon chain - most frequently hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, and various halides. They are often studied as a branch of organic chemistry. |
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Aliphatic compounds in organic chemistry are saturated or unsaturated chains of carbon. Aliphatic molecules consist, generally, of a backbone of carbon atoms and other atoms bound to this carbon chain - most frequently hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, and various halides. |
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compounds containing alkene or alkyne functional groups. The alkane series of hydrocarbons are aliphatic compounds. |
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compounds containing alkene or alkyne functional groups. The alkane series of hydrocarbons are aliphatic compounds. /talk? |
The term "aliphatic" is used to distinguish such molecules from those deemed "aromatic" because of an aromatic ring structure (e.g., the benzene ring), in accordance with Hueckel's "2n+4" rule for ring valence electrons, and to distinguish them from other "unsaturated" compounds which contain carbon-carbon bond?s of an order higher than 1 (ie, those compounds containing alkene or alkyne functional groups. The alkane series of hydrocarbons are aliphatic compounds.
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