Summary:
- An alkene is a hydrocarbon with one or more carbon-carbon double covalent bonds.
- The simplest alkene consists of two carbon atoms and is called ethene.
- Alkenes are called unsaturated hydrocarbons.
- An alkyne is a. hydrocarbon that contains less than the maximum number of hydrogen atoms that.
- can possibly bond with the number of carbon atoms present.
- The general formula for alkenes with one double bond is CnH2n-2.