ketone
See also: Ketone
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From German Keton, from German Aketon (“acetone”), from French acétone (“acetone”). See acetone.
NounEdit
ketone (plural ketones)
- (organic chemistry) 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.
- acetone R1 = R2 = CH3
- methyl ethyl ketone R1 = CH3, R2 = C2H5
- camphor C₁₀H₁₇O
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
- aldehyde R2 = H
- tautomerism
TranslationsEdit
organic chemicals with the >CO functional group
ReferencesEdit
- ketone in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “ketone” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2021.