aldehydes
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- Structure and bonding
- Physical properties and characterization
- Applications and occurrence
- Naturally occurring aldehydes
- Hydroformylation
- Oxidative routes
- Specialty methods
- Acid-base reactions
- Enolization
- Reduction
- Oxidation
- Nucleophilic addition reactions
- Oxygen nucleophiles
- Nitrogen nucleophiles
- Carbon nucleophiles
- Bisulfite reaction
- More complex reactions
- Dialdehydes
- Biochemistry
- Examples of aldehydes
- Examples of dialdehydes
- Uses
- Nomenclature
- IUPAC names for aldehydes
- Etymology
- See also
- References
- External links
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In organic chemistry, an aldehyde () (lat. alcohol dehydrogenatum, dehydrogenated alcohol) is an organic compound containing a functional group with the structure . The functional group itself (without the "R" side chain) can be referred to as an aldehyde but can also be classified as a formyl group. Aldehydes are a common motif in many chemicals important in technology and biology.