<P> In chemistry, an alcohol is any organic compound in which the hydroxyl functional group (--O H) is bound to a carbon . The term alcohol originally referred to the primary alcohol ethanol (ethyl alcohol), which is used as a drug and is the main alcohol present in alcoholic beverages . An important class of alcohols, of which methanol and ethanol are the simplest members, includes all compounds the general formula for which is C H OH . It is these simple monoalcohols that are the subject of this article . </P> <P> The suffix - ol appears in the IUPAC chemical name of all substances where the hydroxyl group is the functional group with the highest priority . When a higher priority group is present in the compound, the prefix hydroxy - is used in its IUPAC name . The suffix - ol in non-IUPAC names (such as paracetamol or cholesterol) also typically indicates that the substance is an alcohol . However, many substances that contain hydroxyl functional groups (particularly sugars, such as glucose and sucrose) have names which include neither the suffix - ol, nor the prefix hydroxy - . </P>

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