Interpretation:
The given alcohol will have high or low solubility in water has to be predicted.
Concept Introduction:
Alcohols are the organic compounds that contain hydroxyl group (
Hydrogen bonding is just a force of attraction between the molecules. It is an intermolecular force.
All the alcohol contain two region in its structure. They are a hydrophobic region and hydrophilic region. The hydrophobic region does not interact with the water and the hydrophilic region interacts well with the water.
If an alcohol has to have high solubility in water, then there should not be more than five carbon atoms per hydroxyl group.
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