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My investigation is based around the subject of alcohols. The majority of people most commonly know alcohol as being a drink, which is consumed by many socially and is thought to be relaxing, but it actually acts a depressant.
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Introduction My investigation is based around the subject of alcohols. The majority of people most commonly know alcohol as being a drink, which is consumed by many socially and is thought to be relaxing, but it actually acts a depressant. However in this investigation I am most interested in the chemistry side of alcohols. Alcohols in chemistry form a homologous series of compounds, which means they all have a general formula. They are generally referred to as being the -OH group, which is the functional group of an alcohol. This means that each alcohol contains an -OH bond. The -OH bond shown in the structural formulae determines the types of reactions created by that particular compound. The table below shows the first six alcohols in the series: NAME MOLECULAR FORMULA STRUCTURAL FORMULA Methanol CH3OH H H -C-O-H H Ethanol C2H5OH H H H-C-C-O-H H H Propanol C3H7OH H H H H-C-C-C-O-H H H H Butanol C4H9OH H H H H H-C-C-C-C-O-H H H H H Pentanol C5H11OH H H...
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