Winter 2015 #9B

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jbcarton
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Winter 2015 #9B

Postby jbcarton » Sat Mar 12, 2016 6:55 pm

For question Winter 2015 #9B (pg. 235 in the course reader), could anyone explain why Fructose (1,3,4,5,6-pentahydroxy-2-hexanone) and 3-hydropentanoic acid have OHs coming off of the carbon chain, as I thought that anything with an OH (unless it was an end of a chain) was an alcohol. It may have to do with the "hydroxy" but I had only seen "oxy"s in ethers. Thanks!
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Re: Winter 2015 #9B

Postby Chem_Mod » Sat Mar 12, 2016 7:07 pm

When named as a substituent, hydroxy- is the prefix of alcohol groups.
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