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A brief guide to alcohol, ether and epoxy-alkane structure-naming-nomenclature Alcohols have the hydroxy group OH attached to at least one of the carbon atoms in the chain. If the OH group is directly attached to a benzene ring , it is called as phenol The primary suffix name is ..ol for alcohol and so for the longest carbon chain (alkanol) the names are based on: 1 carbon, methanol; 2 carbons, ethanol; 3 carbons, propanol; 4 carbons, butanol. After these 4 preserved 'old trivial' names, the name is 'numerically' systematic e.g. 5 carbons, pentanol; 6 hexanol, 7 heptanol, 8 octanol etc. The positions of the substituent alkyl (or other) groups are denot
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