A hydrocarbon compound containing a ring structure with carbon and hydrogen atoms, found in some organic chemistry reactions.
From 'cycl-' (Greek kyklos, circle) combined with the chemistry suffix '-ene' (indicating a carbon-carbon double bond). This naming convention is standard in organic chemistry for unsaturated ring compounds.
Cyclene is part of a huge family of ring-shaped molecules that chemists discovered could undergo amazing transformations—these cyclic compounds became crucial to making everything from plastics to pharmaceuticals in the 20th century.
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