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In organic chemistry, compounds composed of carbon and hydrogen are divided into two classes: aromatic compounds, which contain benzene rings or similar rings of atoms, and ...
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aliphatic compound. Any organic chemical compound in which the carbon atoms are joined in straight chains, as in hexane (C 6 H 14), or in branched chains, as in 2-methylpentane (CH ...
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aliphatic compound (ăl'əfăt`ĭk), any of a large class of organic compounds whose carbon atoms are joined together in straight or branched open chains rather than in rings.

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Aliphatic Compounds, large class of organic molecules consisting essentially of straight or branched chains of carbon atoms. Aliphatic compounds include the alkanes, alkenes, and alkynes and their derivatives. The other major class of organic molecules, aromatic compounds, forms closed ring structures.

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