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Acetone vs Acetonide - What's the difference?

acetone | acetonide |

As nouns the difference between acetone and acetonide

is that acetone is a colourless, volatile, flammable liquid ketone, (CH3)2CO, used as a solvent while acetonide is any cyclic acetal derived from acetone and a diol, especially from a vicinal diol.

acetone

English

Noun

(-)
  • (organic compound) A colourless, volatile, flammable liquid ketone, (CH3)2CO, used as a solvent.

    • Synonyms

    * propanone * propan-2-one * dimethyl ketone

    References

    * (wikipedia "acetone") ----

    acetonide

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (organic chemistry) Any cyclic acetal derived from acetone and a diol, especially from a vicinal diol.

    • Anagrams

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