Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A thick, colorless to pale yellow liquid, C4H8O2, obtained from acetaldehyde and used in perfumery and as a solvent.
  • noun An organic compound containing an alcohol and a carbonyl group, especially a beta-hydroxy aldehyde.
  • noun A chemical reaction that produces a beta-hydroxy carbonyl compound as an intermediate or final product.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A compound, CH3CHOHCH2CHO, formed by the condensation of acetaldehyde by means of zinc chlorid. The official name is butanalol-3.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Chem.) A colorless liquid, C4H8O2, obtained by condensation of two molecules of acetaldehyde: CH3CHO + CH3CHO = H3CH(OH)CH2CO; also, any of various derivatives of this. The same reaction has been applied, under the name of aldol condensation, to the production of many compounds.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun organic chemistry Any aldehyde or ketone having a hydroxy group in the beta- position

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an oily colorless liquid obtained by the condensation of two molecules of acetaldehyde; contains an alcohol group (-OH) and an aldehyde group (-CHO)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[ald(ehyde) + –ol.]

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From aldehyde + -ol ("alcohol")

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Examples

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  • With all this focus on polyketide/macrolide synthesis, I thought I’d highlight an interesting review in this week’s Angewandte; a genuine masterclass in the aldol reaction.

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  • Last night I was even at the stage of sitting in the exam hall waiting to be told to open the test paper, when I realised that I could recall not one of the countless details of reagents, methods and strategies involved in the Grignard reaction in particular (yes, alkylmagnesium, I know that much) or the aldol reaction, Claesen rerrangement, Friedel-Crafts acylation and all the rest.

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  • The implementation of the aldol reaction in the active site of an enzyme has been an important challenge.

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  • The aldol reaction is a key process in living organisms associated with the processing and synthesis of carbohydrates.

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  • In a previous paper, published in the journal Science on March 7, the chemists reported another successful chemical reaction that uses designer enzymes to catalyze a retro-aldol reaction, which involves breaking a carbon-carbon bond.

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  • Ketones can be used in aldol condensation reactions, although they are less reactive than aldehydes in this regard.

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  • The implementation of the aldol reaction in the active site of an enzyme has been an important challenge.

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