Complete combustion of alkenes produces carbon dioxide and water, provided there is a plentiful supply of oxygen. Incomplete combustion of alkenes occurs where oxygen is limited and produces water ...

Photos © Michael Davidson and The Florida State University These photos show the 60-carbon alkene buckminsterfullerene ("buckyballs"). This substance joins graphite ...

The oligomerization reaction, which begins with ethylene (C 2 H 4), a hydrocarbon with two carbon atoms connected by a double bond, can be used to make longer hydrocarbon chains called alkenes, which ...

The researchers developed self-assembling small-molecule catalysts containing the metal palladium that can cleave a bond ...