The Chemistry of Carbonyl Compounds
Welcome! This website will look at the chemistry of carbonyl compounds. It will include information on reactions, structures and mechanisms. This website will give an insight into how and why carbonyl groups react.
| Contents |
General Introduction |
Structure |
How Carbonyl Compounds React |
Aldehydes And Ketones |
Distinguishing Tests |
Glossary |
The 'How Carbonyl Compounds React' section of this website, will introduce electronegavity and how dipole dipole moments cause changes in the carbonyl group to allow reactions to occur.
The 'Aldehydes' and 'Ketones' sections, will look at reactions to create carbonyl compounds, including mechanisms and possible reactions which can occur.
The 'Distinguishing Tests' segment will look at an unknown carbonyl compound and look at how to identify the different carbonyl compounds through a series of simple experiments.
Figure 1.
Picture of Aldehyde Dehydrogenase