How do I know something is a carbonyl compound?

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mrpauller.weebly.com ยท Stefan V.
Mar 24, 2015

You will need to identify the presence of a ketone (aka cabonyl) functional group. Note the difference between a ketone and an aldehyde. The ketone will not have a H directly bonded to the C which forms the double bond with O.

They look like this...

![http://pixgood.com/http://aldehydes-and-ketones.html](https://useruploads.socratic.org/bTriT10kQgu437xGlsr1_ketone.jpg)

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