In organic chemistry terms the difference between alkane and alane
is that alkane is any of saturated hydrocarbons including methane, ethane and compounds with long carbon chain known as paraffins etc., having a chemical formula of the form CnH2n+2 while alane is any organic derivative of this compound.
alkane
Noun
(
en noun)
(organic chemistry) Any of saturated hydrocarbons including methane, ethane and compounds with long carbon chain known as paraffins etc., having a chemical formula of the form CnH2n+2.
Derived terms
* chlorofluoroalkane
* cycloalkane
* hydrofluoroalkane
Related terms
* -ane
* alkene
* alkyne
Hypernyms
* hydrocarbon
Hyponyms
* methane
* ethane
* propane
* butane
* pentane
* hexane
* heptane
* octane
* nonane
* decane
* undecane
* dodecane
* hexadecane
* tetracosane
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alane
English
Noun
(
en noun)
(inorganic compound) aluminium hydride, AlH3
(organic chemistry) Any organic derivative of this compound
Usage notes
This is the current IUPAC name, but is to be replaced by alumane because the systematically derived name of the -AlH2 group would be alanyl which is already used as a derivative of alanine.