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n. - An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.

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  • We could show spectroscopically that the enol-aldehyde of methylglyoxal was really the enzyme's product49.
  • The formation of an enol may explain the anti-microbial properties since enols are known to show disinfectant properties.
  • A paper entitled "The Detection of Ethylketen and enol-Crotonaldehyde in the Vapour-phase Photolysis of trans-Crotonaldehyde" reported some of my work in 1968 after I...
  • Although acetone has two possible forms, the keto - and the enol-forms
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