Ketones and Aldehydes

A Ketone is a hydrocarbon chain, double bonded to an oxygen. The catch is that the double bonded oxygen CANNOT  be at the end of a chain, only in the middle.

When dealing with Ketones, we add the ending -one to the stem. Other than that, standard naming rules apply.

The Simplest ketone looks like this:


This is called Propanone (the Rs stand for hydrocarbons).

Ketones can be combined with other things like Alicyclics, Alkenes, Alkynes, and Aromatics.

For now, here are some more Ketones



The next one is Aldehydes!!!!

Aldehydes are just like ketones but the double bonded oxygens are on the end of the chain. To differentiate, we add the ending -al to the stem.

Like this:

this is 3 Methyl 1 Butanal



and this is 3,3, 5 Trimethyl Hexanal

There you  have it short and sweet :)