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Alternative explanation of ethene's pi bond [closed]
This tutorial about ethene's bonds has the following paragraph that I hope someone can paraphrase in a better way:
The pi bond dominates the chemistry of ethene. It is very vulnerable to attack - a ...
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Reason behind more Reactivity of Unsaturated Hydrocarbons [closed]
My textbook says that unsaturated hydrocarbons are more reactive than saturated ones. But double and triple bonds are stronger than single bonds.
What is the explanation for this?
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What is the order of acidity for hydrogens in primary, secondary and tertiary alkanes, alkenes, and cycloalkanes [duplicate]
The bond dissociation energies of C-H bonds in alkanes, alkenes and aromatic compounds decrease in the following order: primary > secondary > tertiary > allylic > benzylic.
The weaker the bond, the ...
