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Capstone: Functional-Group Family Comparison

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This capstone compares four organic compounds built from the same five-carbon backbone but carrying different functional groups, showing how structure alone predicts each compound's characteristic reaction type and relative oxidation level.

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Assuming pentanal can be produced only by oxidizing 1-pentanol, rather than recognizing it as one point along a general oxidation sequence any similarly structured alcohol would pass through, mistakes one worked example for the whole rule.