Judy Sucks a Lemon for Breakfast wrote:Only one question really bothered me, and that was the one in the VCU packet I think, where it said an aldehyde was a type of ketone. I'm pretty sure this isn't right. It was confusing enough that I didn't get it at the end of the question.
Crazy Andy Watkins wrote:Judy Sucks a Lemon for Breakfast wrote:Only one question really bothered me, and that was the one in the VCU packet I think, where it said an aldehyde was a type of ketone. I'm pretty sure this isn't right. It was confusing enough that I didn't get it at the end of the question.
An aldehyde is a ketone where one of the R groups is H, so no.
EDIT: To be fair, that's only one way of describing it--the aldehyde:ketone relationship could be said to be primary:secondary, rather than one of types, if you're at the moment mostly interested in the fact that the aldehyde is terminal. But it's hard to say that an aldehyde isn't a type of ketone.
Crazy Andy Watkins wrote:Judy Sucks a Lemon for Breakfast wrote:Only one question really bothered me, and that was the one in the VCU packet I think, where it said an aldehyde was a type of ketone. I'm pretty sure this isn't right. It was confusing enough that I didn't get it at the end of the question.
An aldehyde is a ketone where one of the R groups is H, so no.
EDIT: To be fair, that's only one way of describing it--the aldehyde:ketone relationship could be said to be primary:secondary, rather than one of types, if you're at the moment mostly interested in the fact that the aldehyde is terminal. But it's hard to say that an aldehyde isn't a type of ketone.
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