What makes a cycloalkane different from other alkanes?
1 Answer
Apr 10, 2018
Non benzenoid cyclic compounds are called alicyclic compounds or cycloalkanes.
Explanation:
Cycloalkanes are actually alkanes arranged in ring form instead of a normal straight or branched chain as in regular alkanes.
Note that cycloalkanes always have 2 carbon atoms less than its aliphatic straight chain counterpart.
Following are the first four cycloalkanes.
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Organic_Chemistry/Cycloalkanes#/media/File:First_four_cycloalkanespng
Cycloalkanes, however, like regular alkanes are essentially non polar in nature and have low melting and boiling points.