Talk:Ketone
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Ok, so for whoever wrote this originally, I do realize now that ketone is a functional group as well. I've had four semester of organic chemistry, I swear! ;-)
-mgmei
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Yea... i found this really helpful.... although i thought there should be one more example of a ketone... if i knew one... i would add one
propanone butanone pentan-3-one pentan-2-one hexa-3-one hexa-2-one etc.
[edit] Esters
Know nething?
[edit] WTF???
How the !#%&*^% am I supposed to do a report on this stuff? I'm only in 8th grade, and this is the first semester of organic chemistry I've had! This stuff is @!@@%^(%#$@ confusing. I'll probably just copy & paste it. Thank you, Wikipedia!!! For all you noobs, this is the best wiki for plagiarism on the net. Amen.
Yeah, our occasional mistakes help you pretend you wrote it yourself. No 8th grader takes a "semester of organic chemistry". What gives? alteripse 02:50, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] ketones in diabetes
Ketones are also a product of body chemistry when the body is under stress. In diabetics, after a sustained period in hypergleacemia (too much sugar in the blood), ketones present in the urine are evidence of advanced disease status.
As noted in the article, diabetic ketoacidosis, this occurs because of prolonged inadequacy of insulin effect rather than "sustained hyperglycemia". alteripse 23:07, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] secondary alcohols to ketone
the oxidation of secondary alcohols to ketones does not require strong oxidizing agents. it can be achieved (and in the laboratory, is almost always achieved) with extremely mild reagents. Two common examples are the Dess-Martin oxidation with DMP (Dess-Martin Periodinane) and the Swern Oxidation (Oxalyl Chloride and DMSO). I'm hard-pressed to think of an example in recent (legitimate) organic literature when someone actually used a Jones oxidation (Cr(VI)) to make a ketone; this is usually used to make carboxylic acids from primary alcohols, and only in those rare cases where the compound is particularly robust to the strongly acidic conditions used in the reaction. I like your work on this page overall, though. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jwmedley (talk • contribs) 05:50, 25 December 2006 (UTC). --Jwmedley 11:20, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
