The CNO cycle, the abbreviation for the carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle, is a catalytic cycle by which the stars produce helium from elemental hydrogen, via a series of nuclear fusion reactions.
This cycle involves the fusion of four protons with carbon (), nitrogen isotope (), and oxygen isotope (), to give an alpha particle and two electron neutrinos and positrons.
The reaction involves the regeneration of carbon () nucleus in the last step.
The first compound C6H12 is cyclohexane and the other compound C6H6 is benzene. They are both aromatic compounds. Cyclohexane does not have double bonds in its ring while benzene has three double bonds in its ring. This is why the formula for cyclohexane contains 12 carbon atoms while benzene only has 6.