How do you name alkanes with double bonds?

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anor277
May 14, 2018

Alkanes with double bonds ARE NOT alkanes...

Explanation:

Just to retire this question, there is a category confusion here. An hydrocarbyl chain with a double bond is an "olefin", an "alkene", NOT an alkane...

As always an olefin has ONE degree of unsaturation .

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