A-level Chemistry/OCR (Salters)/Alcohols
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Alkan-1-ols[edit | edit source]
| Carbons | Alcohol | Condensed formula | Structural formula | Skeletal formula | 3D model | mp | bp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| water* | HOH | 
|
|
0 °C | 100 °C | ||
| methanol | CH3OH | 
|
|
|
–97 °C | 65 °C | |
| ethanol | C2H5OH | 
|
|
|
−114 °C | 78 °C | |
| propan-1-ol | C3H7OH | 
|
|
|
−127 °C | 97 °C | |
| butan-1-ol | C4H9OH | 
|
|
|
−90 °C | 118 °C | |
| alkan-1-ol | CnH2n+1OH | 
|
* water is not an alcohol, but is included in this table to show how alcohols can be considered as being derived from water by replacing a hydrogen atom with an alkyl group