Illustrated Glossary of Organic Chemistry
Homolog:
Structurally-similar
molecules
within a series with the same
functional group
but different numbers of some repeated
groups
such as
CH
2
. This series of
molecules
is called
homologous series
.
CH
3
OH
CH
3
CH
2
OH
CH
3
CH
2
CH
2
OH
CH
3
CH
2
CH
2
CH
2
OH
Methanol
Ethanol
1-
Propan
ol
1-
Butanol
A homologous series of
alcohols
which differ in the number of
methylene groups
.
Related terms:
HOMO
,
HOMO-LUMO gap
,
homolytic cleavage
,
homotopic
,
Arndt-Eistert reaction
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