Yeast can ferment sugar into molecules of this type like ethanol and methanol.
Aldehydes can be reduced to primary types of these compounds. This organic group can be created using hydroboration and oxidation. These compounds have a carbon bonded to a hydroxyl group; that is, to an (*) oxygen bonded to a hydrogen. Yeast can ferment sugar into molecules of this type like ethanol and methanol. For 10 points, name this compound found in "wood" and "rubbing" varieties.
Aldehydes can be reduced to primary types of these compounds.
alcohol