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Organic Chemistry

Why alkanes produce more energy on combustion?

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12 Years agoGrade
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12 Years ago
The energy produced by burning a hydrocarbon comes from breaking both carbon-hydrogen and carbon-carbon bonds and recombining them into carbon-oxygen and hydrogen-oxygen bonds. Because an unsaturated hydrocarbon has fewer hydrogen carbon bonds, it has less hydrogen per molecule than a similar unsaturated hydrocarbon and will produce more carbon dioxide. This also means unsaturated hydrocarbons produce less energy when burned than do saturated hydrocarbons.
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Bharat Bajaj
IIT Delhi
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Profile image of Arun Kumar
12 Years ago
Hi
Alkanes produce more energy on combustion because it has better H/C ratio.
Higher this ratio better fuel it is.
Thanks & Regards, Arun Kumar, Btech,IIT Delhi, Askiitians Faculty