Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
alkene .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word alkenes.
Examples
-
I know I am totally not making sense, cos that's exactly how we JC people turn out after a massive exercise of the brain, whereby we do, or at least I've done, alkenes, solubility product, DC Circuit tutorials.
jaeaxe Diary Entry jaeaxe 2008
-
The molecules detected by the research team occur naturally in the presence of alkenes, chemical compounds which are mostly released by plants.
-
The greatest cooling effect could be potentially felt in areas where there are high concentrations of both alkenes and pollutants, which enable the biradicals to react.
-
The molecules detected by the research team occur naturally in the presence of alkenes, chemical compounds which are mostly released by plants.
Reuters: Top News 2012
-
The molecules detected by the research team occur naturally in the presence of alkenes, chemical compounds which are mostly released by plants.
-
The greatest cooling effect could be potentially felt in areas where there are high concentrations of both alkenes and pollutants, which enable the biradicals to react.
-
The greatest cooling effect could be potentially felt in areas where there are high concentrations of both alkenes and pollutants, which enable the biradicals to react.
Reuters: Top News 2012
-
Olefins, or alkenes, are compounds that have carbon-carbon double bonds; reactions using catalysts that break those bonds create other new and useful carbon carbon double bond molecules.
-
This, the authors surmise, is linked to some of the facile combinatorial-type reactions used to prepare them, particularly ones that leave enones or exo-alkenes in the final structures.
In the Pipeline 2010
-
And all sort of keto-heterocycles with conjugated exo alkenes make the list.
In the Pipeline 2010
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.