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Acetal vs. Hemiacetal — What's the Difference?

Acetal vs. Hemiacetal — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Acetal and Hemiacetal

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Acetal

An acetal is a functional group with the connectivity R2C(OR')2). Here, the R groups can be organic fragments (a carbon atom, with arbitrary other atoms attached to that) or hydrogen, while the R' groups must be organic fragments not hydrogen.

Hemiacetal

A hemiacetal or a hemiketal have the general formula R1R2C(OH)OR, where R1 or R2 is hydrogen or an organic substituent. They generally result from the addition of an alcohol to an aldehyde or a ketone, although the latter are sometimes called hemiketals.

Acetal

A colorless, flammable, volatile liquid, C6H14O2, used in perfumes and as a solvent.

Hemiacetal

(organic chemistry) Any of a class of compounds of general formula R1R2C(OH)OR' (where R' is not H and R1 or R2 is often hydrogen).

Acetal

Any of the class of compounds formed by combination of an aldehyde with two equivalent weights of alcohol.
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Hemiacetal

An organic compound usually formed as an intermediate product in the preparation of acetals from aldehydes or ketones

Acetal

(organic chemistry) Any diether of a geminal diol, R2C(OR')2 (where R' is not H).

Acetal

A limpid, colorless, inflammable liquid from the slow oxidation of alcohol under the influence of platinum black.

Acetal

Any organic compound formed by adding alcohol molecules to aldehyde molecules

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