Question

differ between alcohol and carboxylic acid?

Answer 1

carboxylic acid's functional group is -COOH while of alcohol is -OH
carboxylic acid's suffix is oic acid anf of alcohol is ol
carboxylic acid is superior than alcohol

Answer 2

Answer:

# Alcohols are a basic alkane, alkene or alkyne with a hydroxide (OH) group attached somewhere on the molecule.

# Carboxylic acids are very similar but they have a second part to their functional group, a double bonded oxygen on the same carbon that the hydroxide group is attached to.

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