secondary alpha-hydroxy ketone
CHEBI:CHEBI_2468
Definition
An alpha-hydroxy ketone in which the carbonyl group and the hydroxy group are linked by a carbon bearing one hydrogen and one organyl group. Secondary alpha-hydroxy ketones are also known as acyloins, and are formally derived from reductive coupling of two carboxylic acid groups.
Chemical Information
- Molecular Formula
- C2H2O2R2
- Molecular Mass
- 58.036
- Charge
- 0
- SMILES
- C(C(=O)*)(O)([H])*
Alternative Names
- acyloin
- acyloins
- secondary alpha-hydroxy ketones
- secondary alpha-hydroxy-ketone
- secondary alpha-hydroxy-ketones
- secondary alpha-hydroxyketone
- secondary alpha-hydroxyketones
Drug Classification
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Important Medical Information
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Additional Identifiers
- core#notation
- CHEBI:2468
- oboInOwl#hasDbXref
- Wikipedia:Acyloin
Additional References
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Additional Attributes
- oboInOwl#hasOBONamespace
- chebi_ontology
- oboInOwl#id
- CHEBI:2468
- core#notation
- CHEBI:2468
- oboInOwl#hasDbXref
- Wikipedia:Acyloin
- oboInOwl#inSubset
- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/chebi#3_STAR
- 22-rdf-syntax-ns#type
- http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#Class
- owl#annotatedSource
- t152258