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- organyl group
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- Category:Aryl groups
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- Aryl groups
- short name
- Ar
- different from
- aril
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A phenyl group is the simplest aryl group, here bonded to an "R" group.
In organic chemistry, an aryl is any functional group or substituent derived from an aromatic ring, usually an aromatic hydrocarbon, such as phenyl and naphthyl. "Aryl" is used for the sake of abbreviation or generalization, and "Ar" is used as a placeholder for the aryl group in chemical structure diagrams, analogous to “R” used for any organic substituent. “Ar” is not to be confused with the elemental symbol for argon.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “aryl” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.