Which of the following are benzylic alcohols?
Which of the following are benzylic alcohols?

Option (ii) and (iii) are the answers.

Benzylic alcohols, as we all know, are molecules with an alcohol functional group on a carbon atom that is directly linked to the Benzene ring.

Because the –OH groups are connected to a carbon atom that is directly linked to the Benzene ring, choices (ii) and (iii) are Benzylic alcohols.

Because the –OH group in both alternatives is not linked to a carbon atom that is directly related to the Benzene ring, they are wrong. As a result, choices (ii) and (iii) are wrong.