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Offline iScience

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are esters, aldehydes, amides, etc.. all ketones?
« on: July 11, 2013, 03:51:59 AM »
esters, aldehydes, amides, carboxylic acids all have a C=O (ketone), so, are all of these technically ketone molecules?
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Re: are esters, aldehydes, amides, etc.. all ketones?
« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2013, 03:56:35 AM »
No they are not technically all ketones.
Go to a textbook and see if you can find out what the differences between them are.
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Re: are esters, aldehydes, amides, etc.. all ketones?
« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2013, 06:55:22 AM »
Quote from: iScience on July 11, 2013, 03:51:59 AM
... all have a C=O (ketone),

You are right that they all have the C=O double bond functional group...  but that group is not called a ketone. Do you know what the correct name is?  The other compound classes you mentioned are based on what surrounds this group.

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Re: are esters, aldehydes, amides, etc.. all ketones?
« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2013, 11:57:22 AM »
Technically you could call them all carbonyl compounds but not ketones, ketone is specific to a certain functional group.
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Re: are esters, aldehydes, amides, etc.. all ketones?
« Reply #4 on: July 11, 2013, 12:00:16 PM »
to put it this way: the clan of carbonyl compounds has many families with even more members, and "ketone" is only one of them


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Re: are esters, aldehydes, amides, etc.. all ketones?
« Reply #5 on: July 12, 2013, 03:53:15 PM »
They are Class of Carbonyl Compounds, but they don't posses same properties as ketones. Study Functional groups in any Organic Text book, you can find the difference.
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