Alkanols are alcohols, and are compounds containing ONLY carbon, hydrogen and oxygen atoms. Alcohols, which include the alkanols, contain the OH functional group, known as the hydroxy (or hydroxyl) functional group. ... Each hydrogen atom in the alkanol molecule has 1 valence electron.
Alkanols belong to a homologous series of organic compounds with a general formula Cn H2n+1 OH and thus -OH as the functional group .
