Physical and Chemical Properties of Aldehydes & Ketones

Ketones cant

________ be further oxidized but aldehydes can be oxidized to carboxylic acids.

Aldehyde

________- when the carbonyl group is at the end of the chain.

Ketone

________- when the carbonyl group is in the middle of the chain or in a ring.

Aldehydes & ketones

________ have a carbonyl group- which is a carbon double bonded to an oxygen atom (C= O)

Aldehydes & ketones

________ undergo addition reactions at the carbon- oxygen double bond called nucleophilic addition.

some common ketones are

propanone (acetone) & cyclohexanone

some common aldehydes are

methanal (formaldehyde), ethanal (acetaldehyde), benzaldehyde