Straightforward skeletal editing chemistry now enables the direct insertion of nitrogen into carbon–carbon double bonds.

Bromine water is an orange solution of bromine. It becomes colourless when it is shaken with an alkene. Alkenes can decolourise bromine water, but alkanes cannot. The slideshow shows this process.

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 ...

This reaction proceeds at room temperature and does not require sunlight or UV radiation to initiate it. The rapid disappearance of the amber color of the bromine at room temperature is characteristic ...

Direct conversion of readily available alkenes into high-value alcohols is important but challenging in both organic synthesis and industry. One-pot reductive hydroformylation of alkenes provides ...

Alkene hydroalkylation reactions make alkyl carbon centers by reacting metal hydride species with alkenes. However, controlling the stereochemical selectivity of this reaction has been challenging.