General Forms For Organic Compounds
A chemical formula used for a series of compounds that differ from each other by a constant unit is called general formula. Such a series is called the homologous series, while its members are called homologs.
For example alcohols may be represented by: CnH(2n + 1)OH (n ≥ 1)
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