Question

(a) What is an alkyl group?

(b) Give the names of any three alkyl radicals. How are they formed?

Answer 1

(a) An alkyl group is obtained by removing one atom of hydrogen from an alkane molecule. Alkyl group is named by replacing the suffix 'ane' of the alkane with the suffix -yl.

(b) The name of three alkyl radicals are:

Methyl

Ethyl

Propyl

They are formed by removing 1 hydrogen from an alkane.