1. What are functional groups in organic molecules? In what ways do they determine the chemical behavior of the molecules?

2. How does the nature of the hydrocarbon radical influence the chemical behavior of a molecule?

3. How does the length of a hydrocarbon chain affect the solubility of an alcohol?

4. Why are alcohols useful as solvents?

5. What are primary, secondary, and tertiary alcohols? What happens when each of these is oxidized?

6. How ware the alcohols prepared from halogenated hydrocarbons? How else can alcohols be obtained?

7. Why does the dipole moment of an alcohol molecule decrease with increasing molecular weight?