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This document contains an alkane worksheet with questions about drawing structures, naming alkanes using IUPAC nomenclature, determining the number of hydrogen atoms in alkanes with a given number of carbon atoms, and writing names for given alkane structures. The highlighted questions are to be completed while the unhighlighted questions provide additional practice.

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Alkanes - Worksheet

This document contains an alkane worksheet with questions about drawing structures, naming alkanes using IUPAC nomenclature, determining the number of hydrogen atoms in alkanes with a given number of carbon atoms, and writing names for given alkane structures. The highlighted questions are to be completed while the unhighlighted questions provide additional practice.

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SCH4U1 Name:

OC01 Date:

Alkanes - Worksheet
(Please note: ​highlighted​ questions should be completed; other questions are for additional practice if required)

1. Butane exists in the form of two structural isomers. Draw the structural formula and write the
IUPAC name of each​.

2. Draw the condensed straight-chain structures for heptane and nonane.

3. Match each name in a-d with the correct structure in e-h.


a. 3-ethyl-2-methylhexane
b. 3-ethyl-4-methylhexane
c. 2,2- dimethylhexane
d. 3-ethylhexane

e. f.

g. h.

4. Write the names of the following alkanes:

a.

b.

c.
5. How many hydrogen atoms would be in a molecule of an alkane containing 15 carbon atoms? 50
carbon atoms?

6. Draw the condensed structural formulas of the following compounds:


a. 2-methylbutane

b. 3,3-dichlorohexane

c. 4-ethyl-2,3,4-trimethyldecane

7. Write the correct name for each of the following structures:

a. c

b. d

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