Acyclic compounds

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Isooctane (systematic: 2,2,4-trimethylpentane), an acyclic organic compound

As acyclic compounds are chemical (usually organic ) compounds referred to in which the structure involved in the atoms chains form and are free of rings. The compounds can be straight or branched and contain heteroatoms .

Simple representatives of the organic homoatomic acyclic compounds are the n - alkanes and iso- alkanes.

If there are rings in the molecule, one speaks of cyclic compounds .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto-Albrecht Neumüller (Ed.): Römpps Chemie-Lexikon. Volume 1: A-Cl. 8th revised and expanded edition. Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-440-04511-0 , pp. 60-61.