Question

20 POINTS

You are investigating an organic compound. It contains the —OH functional group and is a derivative of water. Which compound is it?

alcohol

aldehyde

amide

amine

Answer 1

Alcohol should be the answer to help you out with that question!

Answer 2

Answer: option A, an alcohol

Explanation: since alcohol has general formula R-OH.

We call them as hydroxy derivatives of alkanes or derivatives of water.

Since hydrogen atom of water is replaced by Alkyl group.

Examples: CH3OH(methanol), CH3CH2OH(ethanol)

And aldehyde (RCHO) , amide (RCONH2)& amine (RNH2) won't have OH group. Hence A is correct answer