Aliphatic Compound
In organic chemistry, compounds composed of carbon and hydrogen are divided into two classes: aromatic compounds, which contain benzene or similar rings of atoms, and aliphatic compounds ( /ˌælɨˈfætɨk/; G. aleiphar, fat, oil), which do not contain those rings.
Aliphatic compounds can be cyclic, like cyclohexane, or acyclic, like hexane. They also can be saturated, like hexane, or unsaturated, like hexene.
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