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Organic element symbol "R" I keep hearing different things about what exactly the letter R represents in organic chemical structures. Does the R always represent an alkyl group or can it represent groups with heteroatoms? For example...

I'm confused as to what alcohols really are. I keep reading that an alcohol is an "ALKYL" group with a hydroxyl group attached to it but then I see that definition being contradicted by the exact same person that wrote it. The claim its an ALKYL group but they give examples which list...

At first I read that an aromatic compound is a compound that contains a ring with alternating double bonds in which the electrons are delocalized and the ring exhibits a greater stability than regular conjugated systems. That makes sense to me. In Organic Chemistry by Clayden I read something...

I'm a bit confused about what alkyl groups are in organic chemistry. I thought functional groups by definition where groups of atoms which contained at least 1 element other than carbon or hydrogen which were connected to the carbon skeleton of the molecule. What are alkyl groups then? I read...