Question

1) Predict the number of hydrogens for a hydrocarbons with 11 carbons 2) Predict the number of hydrocarbons with 28 carbons.

Answer 1

1) Number of hydrogens for a hydrocarbon with 11 carbons:

- There are 2 terminal carbons, bound

In hydrocarbon molecules, each carbon atom can form 3 single bonds with hydrogen atoms at the beginning and at the end of the carbon chain.

Also, within the carbon chain it is linked to other carbon atoms.

So, the total number of bonds of the carbon atom in simple hydrocarbons is 4.