enol
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Definition of enol
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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An organic compound containing a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
“1996, Ludvik Labler, August Rüttimann, Alfred Giger, Chapter 2: Coupling Reactions: Part I: Enol Ether and Aldol Condensations, George Britton, Synnove Liaaen-Jensen, Hanspeter Pfander (editors), Carotenoids, Volume 2: Synthesis, Springer (Birkhäuser), page 27, Since research on the total synthesis of carotenoids began, the enol ether and the aldol condensations have been frequently used for the formation of carbon-carbon double bonds.”
“A solution to the use of the thermodynamic ketone enolate lies in the selective formation and reaction of silyl enol ethers.”
“It is interesting to note that relative enol stability (pK_E) plays little or no role in the relative acidity of enols for example, as in the case of 45 and 45’²⁴³.”
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Etymology
Clipping of alkenol.
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