carbinol
Carbinol is a historical term in organic chemistry that has been used with several related meanings. In older literature, carbinol was often employed as a general name for alcohols—organic compounds that contain a hydroxyl group (-OH). In this sense, carbinol is largely synonymous with the modern term alcohol, though the usage is now rare outside historical discussion.
In other contexts, carbinol refers to the carbon atom that bears the hydroxyl group in an alcohol;
The term has also appeared in the naming of certain compounds described as carbinols or carbinol derivatives
Current practice generally excludes carbinol from standard modern chemical writing, reserving it for historical, pedagogical, or
See also: Alcohol, Hydroxyl group, Carbinol carbon, Stereochemistry.