Functional group

July 19th, 2008 by

For other uses, see Functional group (disambiguation).

Benzyl acetate has an ester functional group (in red), an acetyl moiety (circled with green) and an benzyl alcohol moiety (circled with orange).
In organic chemistry, functional groups are specific groups of atoms within molecules that are responsible for the characteristic chemical reactions of those molecules. The same functional group [...]

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