alcohols

Also known as alcohol

any organic compound in which the hydroxyl functional group (–OH) is bound to a saturated carbon atom

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Alcohols are organic compounds that contain a hydroxyl group (–OH) attached to a carbon atom, and they're one of the most fundamental building blocks in chemistry and everyday products. They matter because they appear in everything from beverages and medicines to fuels and industrial chemicals, making them essential to modern life and industry.

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Research

1,162,811 papers

ALIPHATIC ALCOHOLS.ReviewProgress in chemical toxicology · 1963HARGER RN, FORNEY RBDOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-536501-7.50007-2
Modeling Postmortem Ethanol Production/Insights into the Origin of Higher Alcohols.ReviewMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Boumba VADOI: 10.3390/molecules27030700
Alcohol Hangover: Underlying Biochemical, Inflammatory and Neurochemical Mechanisms.ReviewAlcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2019Palmer E, Tyacke R, Sastre M et al.DOI: 10.1093/alcalc/agz016
Quantitative determination of alcohols in human biological fluids through Raman spectroscopy: An alternative alcohol test.Journal of pharmaceutical and biomedical analysis · 2023Papaspyridakou P, Lykouras M, Orkoula MDOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2023.115742
Isopropyl alcohol.Journal of the American Dental Association (1939) · 1946MORRIS HC, DRAGSTEDT CADOI: 10.14219/jada.archive.1946.0163
Antimalarials; alpha-phenyl-beta-dialkylamino alcohols.The Journal of organic chemistry · 1947LUTZ RE, ALLISON RKDOI: 10.1021/jo01169a001
Higher-alcohols biorefinery: improvement of catalyst for ethanol conversion.Applied biochemistry and biotechnology · 2004Olson ES, Sharma RK, Aulich TRDOI: 10.1385/abab:115:1-3:0913
Alcohol.The American journal of psychiatry · 1948SIMON ADOI: 10.1176/ajp.104.7.474

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Wikidata facts

Has part: hydroxyl
Image: Lukastest etoh tbutoh.JPG

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topic's main category: Category:Alcohols
Commons category: Alcohols
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
canonical SMILES: O[*]
SMARTS notation: [$([#6][OX2H1]);!$([#6]=O);!$([#6]=S);!$([#6]=[Se])]
different from: alcoholic beverage
topic has template: Template:Alcohols
boiling point: 97.2
subject has role: depressant

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Encyclopedic overview

Ball-and-stick model of an alcohol molecule ( R3COH). The red and white balls represent the hydroxyl group (−OH). The three "R"s stand for carbon substituents or hydrogen atoms.

In chemistry, an alcohol (from Arabic al-kuḥl 'the kohl') is a type of organic compound that carries at least one hydroxyl (−OH) functional group bound to a saturated carbon atom. Alcohols range from the simple, like methanol and ethanol, to complex, like sugar alcohols and cholesterol. The presence of an OH group strongly modifies the properties of hydrocarbons, conferring hydrophilic (water-attracted) properties. The OH group provides a site at which many reactions can occur.

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