What are alkanes?

What is the homologous series?

What is the general formula for an alkane?

Where are the prefix-parent-suffix derived from?

What are the sources of alkanes?

In what order do you name functional groups according to IUPAC?

What is an isomer?

What is a constitutional isomer?

What increases as chain length increases?

What is conformational isomerism?

What kind of conformation eclipsed?

What kind of conformation is staggered?

How do the energy of these two conformations differ and why?

What is a fully eclipsed conformation?

What is gauche?

What is eclipsed?

Anti (Staggered)

What would one expect of a rotation energy diagram of these conformations?

What is the general structure of a cycloalkane?

What is the chair conformation?

What is the boat conformation?

What arises when 2 or more substituents are added to a cycloalkane?

What is the ratio of carbocation stability?

What is the cause of this variable stability?

What is the net effect?