Functional group present in alcohols

-C-H || O

-C- || O

-C-OH || O

-OH

The term alcohol originally referred to the primary alcohol ethanol (ethyl alcohol), which is used as a drug and is the main alcohol present in alcoholic beverages.
An alcohol is an organic compound with a hydroxyl (OH) functional group on an aliphatic carbon atom.
Because, OH is the functional group of all alcohols, we often represent alcohols by the general formula ROH, where R is an alkyl group.
Alcohols are common in nature.

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