At the end of this activity, students should be able to understand why alkanes and cycloalkanes are chemically inert, understand the energy profile for the combustion of alkanes, know the conditions leading to homolytic fission of the C-C bond, understand the mechanism of free-radical substitution, know about the influence of the type of halogen on substitution in alkanes as well as know the basic methods for alkane and cycloalkane synthesis.

Originally released by Learnetic, 2016.