What functional group resembles a hydroxyl group?
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You may be asking about sulfhydryl groups (
NOTE: Entire compounds are not functional groups; ethanol cannot be a functional group, because it is a complete, defined compound.
However,
Normally alcohols have IUPAC names ending in "-ol", and have prefixes based off of the original alkane (e.g.
A simple way to name the sulfur analog of an alcohol, if the alcohol exists, is to simply add "thi" before "-ol" and utilize the entire name of the would-be alkane instead of omitting the vowel before the suffix.
#"Ethan"\mathbf("ol")# #-># #"Ethan"\mathbf("ethiol")#