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You can find details of the physical and chemical properties for each of these types of compound:

Aliphatic compounds
These are compounds where the functional group is not attached directly to a benzene ring.

alkanes alkenes halogenoalkanes (haloalkanes or alkyl halides) alcohols aldehydes and ketones carboxylic acids acyl chlorides (acid chlorides) acid anhydrides esters amides nitriles amines amino acids and other biochemistry

Aromatic compounds
These are compounds based on benzene rings. This isn't a complete list, but shows only those compounds where there are important differences between them and their aliphatic equivalents.

arenes (benzene and methylbenzene) aryl halides (e.g. chlorobenzene) phenol phenylamine (aniline) and diazonium compounds

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