Parts of the human body can be regarded as functional groups. In this event, alcohol can be thought of as one of these groups. When you think of your body as a whole, different parts can do certain functions. Let’s take the feet. The feet can be compared to aldehydes, ketones, and carbolytic acids.There are things only the feet can do. Take the toes away and it can perform new functions, but loses a part of the old function. An oxidation reaction involves the loss of hydrogen compared to the foot losing toes. Oxidation of a primary alcohol produces an aldehyde, of a secondary alcohol produces a ketone, and tertiary alcohols cannot be oxidized. Compared to the oxidation reaction, in order to occur, they must contain at least one C-H bond. Because tertiary alcohols contain three C-C bonds to the carbinol carbon, they cannot undergo oxidation.

 

The second problem is this:Choose two functional groups and for each group find a household product that contains the functional groups you chose (e.g. fingernail polish remover contains acetone a ketone). Explain the action of the product in terms of the intermolecular forces that these groups impart to the molecule. I have:

The hydroxyl group makes alcohols more soluable (polar) in solvents than the hydrocarbon from which they were derived. Alcohols are capable of hydrogen bonding between molecules. Being very polar, they are able to form intermolecular hydrogen bonds. The alcohol found in alcoholic beverages is ethanol. The oxygen and hydrogen group on the molecule is what gives it the specific chemical properties of alcohol.

The carboxylic acid group makes acetic acid hydrophilic and mixable in water, ethyl alcohol, and diethyl ether because of hydrogen bonding interactions. The hydrogen atom in the carboxyl group can be given off as an H+ ion giving vinager the acidic character.

Any help you are willing to give me is greatly appreciated.

Thanks, meri