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2020年9月12日—(ThestructuresofthesetwocompoundsareshownbelowinFigure2.)Thephenylgroupisbasedsimplyonbenzene,withoneHremoved.Thebenzyl ...

The terms phenyl and phenol, along with benzene and benzyl, can confuse beginning organic chemistry students. Figure 1 shows what the four terms mean.

Figure 1: The top two structures in Figure 1 are molecules. The -ene suffix of benzene might indicate that it is similar to an alkene. The -ol suffix of phenol indicates that it has an -OH group.

The lower two structures in Figure 1 show groups. The line extending off without anything connected is the line that shows this is a group, which should be attached to something. For example, one might have phenyl chloride (C6H5Cl, also called chlorobenzene) or one might have ben...