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Nomenclature of Alcohols, Aldehydes and Ketones

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(a) What are alcohols? State their sources.

(b) Give general formulae of monohydric alcohol.

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(a) Alcohols are the hydroxyl derivatives of alkanes and are formed by replacing one or more hydrogen atoms of the alkane with OH group.
Methanol is obtained from destructive distillation of wood while ethanol is obtained from fermentation of sugar.

(b) The general formula of monohydric alcohol: $C_{n} H_{2 n + 1} O H$

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