Bromine water is an orange solution of bromine. It becomes colourless when it is shaken with an alkene. Alkenes can decolourise bromine water, but alkanes cannot. The slideshow shows this process.

Alkenes play a crucial role in producing everyday products such as plastics, synthetic rubber, and fine chemicals, making ...

A major advance in alkene oligomerization catalysis was Brookhart’s 1995 report of highly active group 10 metal diimine systems. In contrast to nickel and palladium catalysts, the corresponding ...

The table shows the first four alkenes, their molecular formulae, displayed formulae, structural formulae as well as a drawing of their ball-and-stick constructional models.

This reaction proceeds at room temperature and does not require sunlight or UV radiation to initiate it. The rapid disappearance of the amber color of the bromine at room temperature is characteristic ...