Plant Environment Ontology (EO)
OWL
Retired
Last submission date November 11, 2023
ID http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_2468
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_2468
https://agroportal.lirmm.fr/ontologies/EO/CHEBI_2468
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Preferred name

secondary alpha-hydroxy ketone

Synonyms
acyloin
acyloins
secondary alpha-hydroxy ketones
secondary alpha-hydroxy-ketone
secondary alpha-hydroxy-ketones
secondary alpha-hydroxyketone
secondary alpha-hydroxyketones
Definitions
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.
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