Lesson 6 · about 20 minutes
Rings and benzene
Carbon chains that close into rings, and the flat ring behind many smells.
You will learn
- How a carbon chain closes into a ring with 2 fewer hydrogens
- Why cyclohexane's ring folds into a chair
- Benzene's flat ring and the six electrons it shares
- Where benzene rings turn up in flavours, medicines and dyes