Alkanals

Alkanals
R is a straight or branched chain alkyl group. The aldehyde group is marked in blue .

The alkanals form a subgroup of the aldehydes . Their name and structure are derived directly from the alkanes , i. H. the aldehyde group carries straight or branched alkyl groups . They do not contain any other heteroatoms or multiple bonds .

If instead it contains two aldehyde groups, one speaks of alkane di ales .

Typical representatives

• Formaldehyde (methanal) is the simplest representative.
• Acetaldehyde (ethanal)
• Propanal
• Butanals (two structural isomers )
• Pentanals (four structural isomers )
• Hexanal
• ...

literature

• Beyer / Walter : Textbook of Organic Chemistry , 19th edition, S. Hirzel Verlag, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-7776-0356-2 , p. 185.
• K. Peter C. Vollhardt , Neil E. Schore : Organic Chemistry , 4th Edition, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 2005, ISBN 978-3-527-31380-8 , pp. 858 and 906.

Web links

• Entry on alkanals. In: Römpp Online . Georg Thieme Verlag, accessed on October 30, 2018.