
Explore the contents of aldehydes, ketones, and carboxylic acids, including carbonyl structure, nomenclature, preparation, and key reactions such as aldol condensation, perkin reaction, and ester formation.
Introduce aldehydes, ketones, and carboxylic acids, highlighting the carbonyl group, general formulas, and how aldehydes form from alcohols while ketones form from nonterminal hydrogens, with notes on preparation and properties.
Learn naming rules for aldehydes and ketones, including deriving aldehyde names from carboxylic acids, using suffixes -al and -one, and indicating substituent positions with alpha, beta, gamma or delta.
Learn methods to prepare aliphatic aldehydes and ketones from alcohols, including selective oxidation with permanganate or PCC, hydrogenation, and ozonolysis.
Learn how to prepare aromatic aldehydes and ketones from benzene via oxidation of the benzyl side chain and Friedel-Crafts acylation, plus carbon monoxide formylation under Lewis acids.
Explore the chemical properties of aldehydes and ketones, focusing on nucleophilic addition, carbonyl substitution, oxidation and reduction, and reactions with ammonia derivatives, hydrazine, and hydroxylamine.
Delve into the reactivity of aldehydes, ketones, and carboxylic acids, including thionyl chloride mediated transformations, oxidation to carboxylic acids, haloform reaction, and qualitative tests like silver mirror and Benedict's test.
Aldol condensation between aldehydes and ketones with alpha hydrogens forms beta-hydroxy carbonyl compounds, which dehydrate under base to give alpha,beta-unsaturated carbonyls.
Explore carboxylic acids, their carboxyl group and carbonyl-hydroxyl structure, and resonance-driven acidity, while learning IUPAC nomenclature with formic, acetic, propionic, and fatty acids.
Explore commercial and laboratory methods for preparing carboxylic acids, including oxidation of primary alcohols and benzene, carbonation with co2, and nitrile hydrolysis.
Explore the physical properties and chemical behavior of carboxylic acids, including solubility, high boiling points from hydrogen bonding and dimers, and esterification with alcohols.
Aldehydes and ketones are the compounds containing a carbonyl group,
>C=O, in which a carbon atom is linked to an oxygen atom by a double
bond. They have the same general formula CnH2nO.
The general structure of aldehydes is R-CHO and that of ketones is
R-COR′ where R and R′ may be same or different. Formaldehyde
represents the simplest aldehyde in which the carbonyl group is attached
to two hydrogen atom, i.e., R-CHO . Formaldehyde is exceptional in that
the carbonyl group carries two hydrogen atoms and no alkyl substituents.
It is, therefore, not surprising that it displays characteristic properties.
Both aldehydes & ketones contain carbonyl group as their functional group.
Structure of carbonyl group
Both aldehydes & ketones have carbonyl group as the functional group.
The carbonyl carbon is sp2 hybridized & it uses sp2 hybrid orbitals to form
3s bonds, one with oxygen atom & remaining 2 with two other atoms or
groups (R or H). All these 3s bonds lie in same plane at the angle of 120°.
The unhybridized p – orbital of carbonyl carbon form p- bond with oxygen
atom by sidewise overlapping with phalf filled p – orbital of oxygen atom.
Since carbon & oxygen have different values of electronegativity , the
bond between carbon &oxygen is polar. Infact electron density around the
oxygen atom is increased which causes the development of partial
positive charge (d+) on carbon & partial negative charge (d-) on oxygen.
Thus the carbonyl carbon is an electrophilic & carbonyl oxygen is
nucleophilic centre.