Term Information

Accession
CHEBI:2468
Name
secondary alpha-hydroxy ketone
Ontology
Synonyms
acyloin, acyloins, secondary alpha-hydroxy ketones, secondary alpha-hydroxy-ketone, secondary alpha-hydroxy-ketones, secondary alpha-hydroxyketone, secondary alpha-hydroxyketones
Alternate IDs
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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. [source: unknown]
Comment
None
Subset
None
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Parents of secondary alpha-hydroxy ketone (CHEBI:2468)
subject[Reorder by subject] relation[Reorder by relation] object[Reorder by object]
secondary alpha-hydroxy ketone [is_a relation] is_a  alpha-hydroxy ketone (CHEBI:139588)
secondary alpha-hydroxy ketone [is_a relation] is_a  secondary alcohol (CHEBI:35681)
Children of secondary alpha-hydroxy ketone (CHEBI:2468)
subject[Reorder by subject] relation[Reorder by relation] object[Reorder by object]
maysin (CHEBI:70206) [is_a relation] is_a  secondary alpha-hydroxy ketone
deoxynivalenol (CHEBI:10022) [is_a relation] is_a  secondary alpha-hydroxy ketone
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