Ethanol, an organic compound is ethyl alcohol, in which the two carbon parent chain ethane has an alcohol substituent (-OH).
In ethanol the parent carbon compound is ethane and one of the hydrogens on ethane is replaced by an alcohol -OH group.
The chemical formula will be [tex] CH_{3}CH_{2}OH [/tex] which can be written as [tex] C_{2}H_{6}O [/tex]
