Alkyl cycloalkane

Alkyl cycloalkanes are chemical compounds with an alkyl group with a single ring of carbons to which hydrogens are attached according to the formula They are named analogously to their normal alkane counterpart of the same carbon count: methylcyclopropane, methylcyclobutane, methylcyclopentane, methylcyclohexane, etc.

The naming of polycyclic alkanes is more complex, with the base name indicating the number of carbons in the ring system, a prefix indicating the number of rings (e.g., "bicyclo"), and a numeric prefix before that indicating the number of carbons in each part of each ring, exclusive of vertices.

That part of the six-member ring, exclusive of the shared edge has 4 carbons.

The normal and the bigger alkylcycloalkanes are very stable like alkanes and their reactions (cf.

The small alkylcycloalkanes - particularly alkylcyclopropane - has a lower stability due to the Bayer tension.