Unlike compounds of its type with more carbons, it undergoes a severe degree of angular and torsional strain, making it unstable.  First synthesized by allowing 1,3-Dibromopropane to react with sodium
Unlike compounds of its type with more carbons, it undergoes a severe degree of angular and torsional strain, making it unstable.  First synthesized by allowing 1,3-Dibromopropane to react with sodium, its carbon framework is held together by what are called "banana bonds."  Derivatives of it can also by synthesized by allowing an alkene to react with a carbene.  For ten points, name this simplest of the cycloalkanes.
Unlike compounds of its type with more carbons, it undergoes a severe degree of angular and torsional strain, making it unstable.  
cyclopropane