What's up with alcohol(s)?
Chemistry For Your Life
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The Basics of Alcohol Functional Groups
The IUPAC convention for naming alcohols is to put an O all at the end. So methanol, ethanol, propanol, those are IUPAC names for an alcohol they end in OL. Propanol, propyl alcohol has three carbons. That's the standard in chemistry in general. If you have a molecule that's one carbon, it's methane. You replace one of those with an alcohol, one of your hydrogen groups with an OH group and it becomes propanol.
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