Alkenyl Vs Vinyl. 1 01 7 2 reactions at vinyl or alkenyl groups. Vinyl is one of the alkenyl functional groups. From the perspective of applications the dominant member of this class of compounds is vinyl chloride which is produced on the scale of millions of.
In contrast to vinyl allyl group is attached to the rest of the molecule through ch 2 group. In organic chemistry a vinyl halide is a compound with the formula ch 2 chx x halide the term vinyl is often used to describe any alkenyl group.
H 2 c ch ethenyl or commonly known as vinyl.
On a carbon skeleton sp 2 hybridized carbons or positions are often called vinylic. Vinyl contains two sp 2 hybridized carbon atoms and three hydrogen atoms. These reactions were covered in section 1 01 6. Alkenyl compounds are named by replacing the e from the parent alkene s name with yl.
