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Cis-2-butene

Cis-2-butene

Extracted from the Wikipedia article 2-Butene.

2-Butene is an acyclic alkene with four carbon atoms. It is the simplest alkene exhibiting cis/trans-isomerism (also known as (E/Z)-isomerism); that is, it exists as two geometric isomerscis-2-butene ((Z)-but-2-ene) and trans-2-butene ((E)-but-2-ene).