Lesson 5 - Alcohols & Ethers

Question 1

how can you tell if an alcohol is a primary, secondary, or a tertiary alcohol?

Answer 1

based on how many carbon atoms are attached to the carbon atom with the hydroxyl.

Question 2

what are polyalcohols?

Answer 2

they are alcohols that contain more than one -OH group

Question 3

what can you use as a suffix for polyalcohols?

Answer 3

-diol, -triol, etc

Question 4

what can you use as a prefix for polyalcohols?

Answer 4

hydroxy-