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Are hydrocarbons in the carboxyl group?

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This wording of this question sounds like you may be confused.

In the term "carboxyl group", group refers to a specific group of atoms (COOH), not to a group of similar types of compounds.

Since hydrocarbons by definition contain only carbon and hydrogen, a hydrocarbon cannot contain a carboxyl group.

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