Chemistry A-Level
Aldehyde versus ketone discrimination
What Aldehyde versus ketone discrimination means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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Telling these apart by what is bonded to the carbonyl carbon, since an aldehyde has a C=O with H on the carbon and a ketone has a C=O between two carbons.
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