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KETONES

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 762 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KETONES , in See also:

chemistry, organic compounds of the type R • CO • R', where R, R' = alkyl or aryl See also:groups. If the groups, R and R' are identical, the ketone is called a See also:simple ketone, if unlike, a mixed ketone. They may be prepared by the oxidation of secondary See also:alcohols; by the addition of the elements of See also:water to See also:hydrocarbons of the See also:acetylene type See also:RC CH ; by oxidation of See also:primary alcohols of the type RR'•CH•See also:CH2OH:RR'•CH•CH2OH -~ R•CO•R'+See also:H2O+H2CO2; by See also:distillation of the See also:calcium salts of the fatty acids, CnH23102; by See also:heating the See also:sodium salts of these acids C.H2n02 with the corresponding See also:acid anhydride to 19o° C. (W. H. See also:Perkin, Jour. Chem. See also:Soc., 1886, 49, p. 322); by the See also:action of anhydrous ferric Chloride on acid chlorides (J. Hamonet, See also:Bull. de la soc. chim., 1888, 50, p. 357), 2C2HSO001 See also:C2H6• CO .

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