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Representations of Organic Compounds

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Draw the structural formula of a compound with two carbon atoms in case of:
An alcohol containing two carbon atoms.

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An alcohol is a compound containing the $(- O H)$ functional group.
Alcohol with two carbon atoms is named Ethanol $(C_{2} H_{5} O H)$ , with the root word ‘eth’ for two carbon atoms, ‘an’ indicates alkane i.e saturated hydrocarbons with single bonds, and the suffix ‘ol’ indicative of alcohol.
The structural formula of Ethanol is as follows:

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