Cyclic Hydrocarbons:

Terms Related to Cyclic Hydrocarbons

• Alicyclic Hydrocarbons

  Organic compounds composed exclusively of carbon and hydrogen. Three or more carbon atoms are arranged in a cyclic structure and they possess aliphatic properties.

• Acyclic Hydrocarbons

  Organic compounds composed exclusively of carbon and hydrogen where no carbon atoms join to form a ring structure.

• Aromatic Hydrocarbons

  Organic compounds containing carbon and hydrogen in the form of an unsaturated, usually hexagonal ring structure. The compounds can be single ring, or double, triple, ...

• 3 Ring Heterocyclic Compounds

  A class of organic compounds containing three ring structures, one of which is made up of more than one kind of atom, usually carbon plus ...

• 2 Ring Heterocyclic Compounds

  A class of organic compounds containing two ring structures, one of which is made up of more than one kind of atom, usually carbon plus ...

• 1 Ring Heterocyclic Compounds

  A class of organic compounds containing a ring structure made up of more than one kind of atom, usually carbon plus another atom. The ring ...