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Why is the boiling point of glycerol higher than that of 1-pentanol?
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Glycerol has a notoriously "bendy" structure with a lot of areas for other glycerol molecules to hook onto it and get tangled in the solution (this is why glycerol is one of the most viscous organic liquids as well) making it harder for the molecules to escape into the gas phase. Ethylene Glycol has a higher bp than ethanol because it has two free oxygen molecules on which hydrogen bonding can occur, while ethanol only has one. Generally you want to look at the type of intermolecular forces that would be present in a solution, the frequency of which they can occur, the mass of the substance (heavier has higher bp), and then the overarching structure of the molecule.
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