Question

What are saturated carbon compounds ? Give two examples.

Answer 1

Saturated compounds

Saturated compounds only possess carbon-carbon single bonds.

Properties

Saturated compounds are generally more stable and less reactive than unsaturated compounds since no steric hindrances and no major polarity differences occur. In addition, they have very low melting and boiling pointsrelative to their molar mass.

Examples

Saturated hydrocarbons

• Alkanes

Saturated alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids and ester

• Butanol, acetaldehyde, propanone, butyric acid
• saturated fatty acids (e.g., stearic acid and palmitic acid)