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This is true of the vast majority of organic compounds. Compounds with only one carbon, such as methane are usually the first of a series with similar structure but more carbons and hydrogens. Methane is the first of the saturated aliphatic hydrocarbons, methane, ethane, propane, butane etc.


So what is an unsaturated compound?