Is it a standard practice to name functional group by the greek alphabet of the carbon it is attached to?
Recently read a question in which the order of translation (protein synthesis) was asked and there were a couple of options with the $\ce{NH2}$ was labelled as $\ce{\alpha-NH2}$ and $\ce{COOH}$ as $\ce{\alpha-COOH}$.
I read wiki, it says H atoms are labeled in that way but are functional groups too labeled in the same way?