When chemists pick out reactive hot spots on aldehydes and ketones, they generally focus on the electrophilic carbonyl carbon or the α-carbon next door. The α-carbon can easily shed a proton and ...

Rhodium-catalyzed carbon–hydrogen bond activation has attracted great interest in the construction of carbon–carbon and carbon–heteroatom bonds. In recent years, transition metal-mediated oxygen ...

Ketones are in equilibrium with a form known as an enol. The name enol derives from the fact that enols are a combination of a carbonyl (C=O) containing group, such as an aldehyde or ketone and an ...