alikeness

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In typical alkenes, the carbons adopt a trigonal planar geometry, creating a flat structure around the double bond.

From Science Daily • Jan. 23, 2026

Carbon-carbon double bonds are called alkenes and have a bond order of 2, which reflects how many electron pairs are shared between the bonded atoms.

From Science Daily • Jan. 23, 2026

Thus, alkenes undergo a characteristic reaction in which the π bond is broken and replaced by two σ bonds.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

Explain why unbranched alkenes can form geometric isomers while unbranched alkanes cannot.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

The alkenes are missing a couple of hydrogens but otherwise they did a pretty good job of drawing them.

From Scientific American • Aug. 21, 2013