Alkane

In organic chemistry, an alkane, or paraffin (a historical name that also has other meanings), is an acyclic saturated hydrocarbon. In other words, an alkane consists of hydrogen and carbon atoms arranged in a tree structure in which all the carbon-carbon bonds are single. Alkanes have the general chemical formula CnH2n+2. The alkanes range in complexity from the simplest case of methane, CH4 where n = 1 (sometimes called the parent molecule), to arbitrarily large molecules.

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Alkane Structure and their Nomenclature:

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) developed a system to name different organic compounds. Alkanes are generally named using the number of carbon atoms in the chain followed by the suffix-ane.