ketone
Sign in to saveIn organic chemistry, a ketone is an organic compound with the structure , where R and R' can be a variety of carbon-containing substituents. Ketones contain a carbonyl group (a carbon-oxygen double bond C=O). A ketone derived from an alkane is an alkanone. The simplest ketone is acetone (where R and R' are methyl), with the formula . Many ketones are of great importance in biology and industry. Examples include many sugars (ketoses), many steroids, e.g., testosterone, and the solvent acetone.
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A ketone is a type of organic compound built around a carbon-oxygen double bond, with carbon atoms attached on either side of that bond. Ketones are important because they appear widely in nature and industry—showing up in sugars, hormones like testosterone, and useful solvents like acetone.
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21 sectionsContents
- Nomenclature and etymology
- Structure and bonding
- Classes of ketones
- Diketones
- Unsaturated ketones
- Cyclic ketones
- Characterization
- Spectroscopy
- Qualitative organic tests
- Reactions
- Keto-enol tautomerization
- Acid/base properties of ketones
- Nucleophilic additions
- Oxidation
- Other reactions
- Biochemistry
- Applications
- Toxicity
- See also
- References
- External links
In organic chemistry, a ketone is an organic compound with the structure , where R and R' can be a variety of carbon-containing substituents. Ketones contain a carbonyl group (a carbon-oxygen double bond C=O). A ketone derived from an alkane is an alkanone. The simplest ketone is acetone (where R and R' are methyl), with the formula . Many ketones are of great importance in biology and industry. Examples include many sugars (ketoses), many steroids, e.g., testosterone, and the solvent acetone.
==Nomenclature and etymology== The word ketone is derived from Aketon, an old German word for acetone.