Octene

1-octene

Octene is an alkene with the formula C
8H
16. Several isomers of octene are known, depending on the position and the geometry of the double bond in the carbon chain.

The simplest isomer is 1-octene, an alpha-olefin used primarily as a co-monomer in production of polyethylene via the solution polymerization process. Several useful structural isomers of the octenes are obtained by dimerization of isobutene and 1-butene. These branched alkenes are used to alkylate phenols to give precursors to detergents.^[1]

References

↑ Helmut Fiege, Heinz-Werner Voges, Toshikazu Hamamoto, Sumio Umemura, Tadao Iwata, Hisaya Miki, Yasuhiro Fujita, Hans-Josef Buysch, Dorothea Garbe, Wilfried Paulus "Phenol Derivatives" in Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry 2002, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim.doi:10.1002/14356007.a19_313.

External links

OSHA Safety and Health Topics: 1-Octene

Alkenes

Ethene ( C 2H 4 ) Propene ( C 3H 6 ) Butene ( C 4H 8 ) Pentene ( C 5H 10 ) Hexene ( C 6H 12 ) Heptene ( C 7H 14 ) Octene ( C 8H 16 ) Nonene ( C 9H 18 ) Decene ( C 10H 20 )

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