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Write answers as directed. Give any four functional groups containing oxygen as the heteroatom in it. Write name and structural formula of one example each.

Question 31.

Write answers as directed.

Give any four functional groups containing oxygen as the heteroatom in it. Write name and structural formula of one example each.


Answer:

Four functional groups are:-

(i) Alcohol


Example: Propan-2-ol



(ii) Aldehyde


Example: methanal



(iii) Carboxylic acid


Example: Butanoic acid


CH3CH2CH2COOH


(iv) ketones


Examples:- butanone


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