Name a hydrocarbon with 5 carbons in a chain and in the last carbon there is an alcohol group attached to it.

Propanol

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Propanal

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Propanone

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Propanoic Acid

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Solution

The correct option is A Propanol
The suffix of the functional group of alcohols is -ol. So for a 5-carbon alcohol the chemical name is pentanol.

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