An aliphatic alcohol in which the aliphatic alkane chain is substituted by a hydroxy group at unspecified position.
| Member | Definition | Role |
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| 1-butanol | A primary alcohol that is butane in which a hydrogen of one of the methyl groups is substituted by a hydroxy group. It it produced in small amounts in humans by the gut microbes. | butan-1-ol |
| 2-methylbutanol | A primary alcohol that is isopentane substituted by a hydroxy group at position 1. | 2-methylbutan-1-ol |
| isobutyl alcohol | An alkyl alcohol that is propan-1-ol substituted by a methyl group at position 2. | isobutanol |
| isopentyl alcohol | An primary alcohol that is butan-1-ol in which a hydrogen at position 3 has been replaced by a methyl group. | isoamylol |
| methanol | The primary alcohol that is the simplest aliphatic alcohol, comprising a methyl and an alcohol group. | methanol |