Acetaldehyde Definition

ăsĭ-tăldə-hīd
noun
A colorless, soluble, flammable, liquid aldehyde, CH3CHO, formed by the oxidation of ethylene: used as a solvent and as a raw material in making many organic compounds.
Webster's New World
A colorless, flammable liquid, C2 H4 O, used to manufacture acetic acid, perfumes, and drugs.
American Heritage Medicine

(organic chemistry) An organic compound (CH3CHO). Sometimes called ethanal or acetic aldehyde. See aldehyde.

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Noun

Singular:
acetaldehyde
Plural:
acetaldehydes

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Acetaldehyde Sentence Examples

  • Grignard (Comptes Rendus, 1900 et seq.) showed that aldehydes combine with magnesium alkyl iodides (in absolute ether solution) to form addition products, which are decomposed by water with the formation of secondary alcohols, thus from acetaldehyde and magnesium methyl iodide, isopropyl alcohol is obtained.

  • Thioaldehydes are also known, and are obtained by leading sulphuretted hydrogen into an aqueous solution of acetaldehyde.

  • It is prepared by oxidizing cinnamyl alcohol, or by the action of sodium ethylate on a mixture of benzaldehyde and acetaldehyde.

  • Scholtz (Ber., 1894, 2 7, p. 2 95 8) from piperonyl acrolein (the condensation product of piperonal and acetaldehyde) and acetic acid.

  • Traces of ethyl alcohol in solutions are detected and estimated by oxidation to acetaldehyde, or by conversion into iodoform by warming with iodine and potassium hydroxide.

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