Alcohol
![Ball-and-stick model of the hydroxyl (-OH) functional group in an alcohol molecule (R3COH). The three](/Images/godic/202412/18/Alcohol5902.png")
![The hydroxyl (-OH) functional group with bond angle](/Images/godic/202412/18/Alcohol_general.svg5902.png")
![Ball-and-stick model of tert-Amyl alcohol, which is 20 times more intoxicating than ethanol and like all tertiary alcohols, cannot be metabolised to toxic aldehydes.[6][7][8]](/Images/godic/202412/18/2-Methyl-2-butanol-3D-balls5902.png")
![Most significant of the possible long-term effects of ethanol. In addition, in pregnant women it may cause fetal alcohol syndrome.](/Images/godic/202412/18/Possible_long-term_effects_of_ethanol.svg5902.png")
In chemistry, an alcohol is any organic compound in which the hydroxyl functional group (–OH) is bound to a saturated carbon atom. The term alcohol originally referred to the primary alcohol ethanol (ethyl alcohol), the predominant alcohol in alcoholic beverages.