A functional group is an atom or group of atoms that determines the chemical properties of a hydrocarbons.For example: Ether ( - 0 - ) Aldehyde ( - CHO )
a. Saturated hydrocarbon having three carbon atoms. Name: Propane Formula: C3H8b. An alkene having four carbon atoms. Name: Butene Formula: C4H8c. An alkyne having two carbon atoms. Name: Ethyne ...
a. Ethane. > It is used in laboratory. > It is used as source of heat.b. Ethyl alcohol. > It is used in laboratory. > It is used as a fuel.c. Diethyl ether. > It is used as organic solvent. > It is used as purification if organic compounds.
Detergents are one of the cheap and popular cleansing agents made from hydrocarbons of petroleum by-products.Detergents are called soapless soup because it has cleansing property like that of soap but doesn't contains any chemicals that are found in soap.
Detergent are used more than soap because it have stronger cleansing action than that of soap. It can be used even with hard water but soap is insoluble in it and its prepared from hydrocarbon as petroleum by-products. So, it is used more than soap as its cheaper also.
Well it's your misconception that every ester is lipid. Only the esters of fatty acids are lipids and in the above reaction ester is formed by the removal of a molecule of water. This is simply a general formula . In the same case if the akyl group(-R) is replaced by fatty acid (which is itself a hydrocarbon chain) then that's lipid. Hope you understood.