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How do you name alkenes?

Answer 1

Isaac Aronson

There are many stems but they all share an ending.

They begin with

Prop Proper But Not Prophecy Hex Oct Non Dec

Every one of them ends in "ene"

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Answer 2

Paisley Boney

Alkenes are named by identifying the longest carbon chain containing the double bond, numbering the chain to give the double bond the lowest possible number, and then adding the suffix "-ene" to the root name of the alkane corresponding to the number of carbon atoms in the chain. If the double bond occurs between two different carbon chains, the names of both chains are included, along with the location of the double bond. Additionally, cis and trans isomers are indicated if necessary to denote the spatial arrangement of substituents around the double bond.

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Answer from HIX Tutor

When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.