iGCSE Chemistry - Alkanes

**This Powerpoint specifically uses the Cambridge iGCSE Chemistry Syllabus and covers all criteria for – Unit 11.4 Alkanes
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Students will be able to -

1 State that the bonding in alkanes is single
covalent and that alkanes are saturated
hydrocarbons

2 Describe the properties of alkanes as being
generally unreactive, except in terms of
combustion and substitution by chlorine

Supplement

3 State that in a substitution reaction one atom or
group of atoms is replaced by another atom or
group of atoms

4 Describe the substitution reaction of alkanes
with chlorine as a photochemical reaction,
with ultraviolet light providing the activation
energy, Ea, and draw the structural or
displayed formulae of the products, limited to
monosubstitution

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