KETONE

Ketone

In chemistry, a ketone is an organic compound with the structure RCR', where R and R' can be a variety of carbon-containing substituents. Ketones feature a carbonyl group bonded to two other carbon atoms. Many ketones are known and many are of great importance in industry and in biology. Examples include many sugars and the industrial solvent acetone.

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ketone

Noun

  1. A homologous series of organic molecules whose functional group is an oxygen atom joined to a carbon atom—by a double bond—in a carbon-hydrogen based molecule.


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