Butanoic acid can be reduced to a primary alcohol. Which of the following compounds is the position isomer of the primary alcohol?

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Reduction of butanoic acid gives butan-1-ol, CH₃-CH₂-CH₂-CH₂-OH. A position isomer has the same carbon skeleton and the same functional group at a different position : butan-2-ol, CH₃-CH₂-CH(OH)-CH₃. Options (A) and (C) have different functional groups (ketone and aldehyde), and option (B) is the compound itself.

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