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What is a carbonyl?

What is a carbonyl? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (organic chemistry) In organic chemistry, a divalent functional group, (-CO-), characteristic of aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, amides, carboxylic acid anhydrides, carbonyl halides, esters and others.
  2. (inorganic chemistry) Any compound of a metal with carbon monoxide, such as nickel carbonyl, Ni(CO)4.
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Perhaps the richest and certainly the most extensively studied cluster compounds are the carbonyl complexes.
The carboxyl group can also be converted into an alcohol by reduction of the carbonyl carbon.
We investigated a role of the glyoxalase detoxification system of precursor reactive carbonyl compounds in the in vivo AGE formation.
The carboxylic acid group of the drug is first reacted with an activated carbonyl group like that found on isobutyl chloroformate.
Oxidation of an aldehyde breaks the double bond within the carbonyl group to give a carboxylic acid.
It includes the glycerol and carbonyl groups and the hydrocarbon chains of the lipid.

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