Chemistry 10th Edition

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Chapter 23 - Organic Chemistry I: Formulas, Names, and Properties - Exercises - Mixed Exercises - Page 950: 113

Answer

a) Alcohol b) Ether c) Alcohol d) Ketone

Work Step by Step

a) Identify the functional group. Here, it is $-OH$. This is the functional group of alcohol. So, this compound belongs to alcohol group. (more specifically, this is an aliphatic alcohol as the OH group is associated with aliphatic C atom.) b) Identify the functional group. Here it is $-O-$ i.e. ether functional group. So, this is an ether (specifically, aromatic ether because of two phenyl groups present on both side of O atom) c) This compound also belongs to alcohol as there is $-OH$ group present. d) This compound belongs to ketone group because functional group present here is $-CO-$
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