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

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Pentanol

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Pentanal

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Pentanone

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Pentanoic Acid

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Solution

The correct option is A Pentanol
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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