primary alcohol biosynthetic process

id: GO:0034309
name: primary alcohol biosynthetic process
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of primary alcohols. A primary alcohol is any alcohol in which a hydroxy group, -OH, is attached to a saturated carbon atom which has either three hydrogen atoms attached to it or only one other carbon atom and two hydrogen atoms attached to it.

Child Functions

idname
GO:0006115ethanol biosynthetic process
GO:0006715farnesol biosynthetic process
GO:0033021cyclopentanol biosynthetic process
GO:0046169methanol biosynthetic process
GO:0046171octanol biosynthetic process
GO:00712711-butanol biosynthetic process

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0034308primary alcohol metabolic process
GO:0046165alcohol biosynthetic process