Organic Chemistry - ALKANES

Question

Industrial preparation of alkanes involves:

a)   fractional distillation  c) alkylation

b)   polymerization          d) all of the abovE

Answer 1

Alkanes are hydrocarbon molecules which have only single carbon-carbon bonds and carbon-hydrogen bonds having the general formulal C_nH_2n+2. They occur naturally on earth in petroleum and natural gas and so can be distilled through fractional distillation.