Chapter 12 - Alcohol, Thiols, Ethers, Aldehydes, and Ketones
12.1 - Alcohols, Thiols, Ethers, Aldehydes, and Ketones
- The hydroxyl group (so-oh) linked to a carbon chain is the functional group of an alcohol. * In phenol, an aromatic ring is attached to the hydroxyl group. * The working group for thiols is ̄SH, which is similar to the ̄OH alcohol group.
- The names of alcohols have old endings in the IUPAC system, and by numbering the carbon chain is the location of the −a OOH group * The name of cyclic alcohol is cycloalkanes
- The common names of simple alcohols preceding the term alcohol are generally called alkyl names. * A phenol is named aromatic alcohol.
- An atom of oxygen is linked with two alkyl or aromatic groups through a single bond.
- The alkyl or aromatic groups are alphabetically indicated in the common names of ethers, followed by ether.

12.2 - Properties of Alcohols
- Alcohols shall be classified by the number of carbon-bound alkyl groups in the ÚFO group * One group is attached to the hydroxyl carbon in primary (1°) alcohol. * Two groups are joined in secondary alcohol (2°) * Three groups are attached to hydroxyl carbon with tertiary (3°) alcohol.
- Alcohols in short chains can bind water to hydrogen that making it soluble.
12.3 - Aldehydes and Ketones
- The carbonyl group (C"O) consists of a two-way link between the carbon and the oxygen atom Aldehydes and ketones
- At the end of the carbon chains attached to at least one hydrogen atom, the carbonyl group is found in aldehydes. * In cetones, between the alkyl or aromatic groups, the carbonyl group takes place.
- For aldehydes and one for ketones, thee in the corresponding name is replaced in the IUPAC system.
- The carbonyl group is numbered to show its position for ketones with more than four carbon atoms in the main chain.
- Many simple aldehydes and ketones are named after the same.
- Aldehydes and ketones can link hydrogen to water molecules because they are a polar carbonyl group, which makes carbonyl compounds soluble in water from one to four carbon atoms.
12.4 - Reactions of Alcohols, Thiols, Aldehydes, and Ketones
- Alcohols undergo CO2, H2O, and energy combustion with O2.
- Alcohols dehydrate to produce alkenes at high temperatures in the presence of acid. * Aldehydes oxidize primary alcohols that can further oxidize carboxylic acids.
- Secondary alcohols are ketone oxidized. * No oxidizing tertiary alcohols.
- Thiols are subjected to disulfide oxidation * Carboxylic acids are easily oxidized by aldehydes, but the ketones do not oxidize.
- Tollens' reagent oxidizes aldehydes to give silver mirrors, but not ketones. * In the test by Benedict, blue cu2+ is reduced to a solid Cu2O of brick-red aldehydes with adjacent hydroxyl groups.
- In the presence of an alcohol-giving catalyst, aldehydes and ketones can be reduced with H2.
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