11. Numerous applications for alkane metathesis involving petrochemicals and fuels can be envisaged. 12. There is also another very different protein called AlkB or alkane hydroxylase. 13. Van der Waals forces are the cause that the alkanes stay together. 14. The methenium ion is very reactive, even towards alkanes . 15. Their volatility is intermediate between the alkanes and the germanes. 16. Different alkanes are, for example, miscible in all proportions among themselves. 17. They also produce this simplest of all alkanes in the intestines of humans. 18. In general they are volatile, but less so than their parent alkanes . 19. Polycyclic alkanes include cubane, basketane, and housane. 20. Indeed, it is believed to be the smallest " impossible " alkane .
