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ketone

/kee-tohn/US // ˈki toʊn //UK // (ˈkiːtəʊn) //

酮体,酮类,酮,酮类化合物

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Chemistry.

    • : any of a class of organic compounds containing a carbonyl group, CO, attached to two alkyl groups, as CH3COCH3 or CH3COC2H5.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : containing the ketone group.

Examples

  • It also acts as a chromogenic centre when double bonds or ethylenic linkages are present, as in fluorene ketone or fluorenone.

  • If the groups R and R′ are identical, the ketone is called a simple ketone, if unlike, a mixed ketone.

  • The hexoses all contain five alcoholic groups and one primary aldehyde, or one secondary aldehyde (ketone), group.

  • Even the common linseed contains a glucoside which breaks up into sugar, prussic acid, and a ketone.

  • Ionone, a ketone first prepared by Tiemann, and having when diluted a pronounced violet odour.