20 organic conversions chapter aldehyde and ketone
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Both aldehydes and ketones contain a carbonyl group, a functional group with a carbon-oxygen double bond. The names for aldehyde and ketone compounds are derived using similar nomenclature rules as for alkanes and alcohols, and includeIn an aldehyde, the carbonyl group is bonded to at least one hydrogen atom. In a ketone, the carbonyl group is bonded to two carbon atoms. As text, an aldehyde group is represented as –CHO; a ketone is represented as –C(O)– or –CO–. the class-identifying suffixes -al and -one, respectively.
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