pivaldehyde
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Pivaldehyde is an organic compound, more specifically an aldehyde. Shown in the infobox image is a line-angle representation of this organic aldehyde, whose systematic name, 2,2-dimethylpropanal, is based on the longest carbon chain (three carbon atoms), ending in "-al" to indicate the aldehyde functionality, and where another descriptive synonym is trimethylacetaldehyde. Pivaldehyde is an example of an aldehyde attached to a sterically bulky alkyl group, the tertiary butyl group (carbon attached to with 3 methyl groups).
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- Mass
- 86.073
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- chemical formula
- C₅H₁₀O
- canonical SMILES
- CC(C)(C)C=O
- Commons category
- Pivaldehyde
- melting point
- 6.0
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Pivaldehyde is an organic compound, more specifically an aldehyde. Shown in the infobox image is a line-angle representation of this organic aldehyde, whose systematic name, 2,2-dimethylpropanal, is based on the longest carbon chain (three carbon atoms), ending in "-al" to indicate the aldehyde functionality, and where another descriptive synonym is trimethylacetaldehyde. Pivaldehyde is an example of an aldehyde attached to a sterically bulky alkyl group, the tertiary butyl group (carbon attached to with 3 methyl groups).
==See also== Pivalic acid - corresponding carboxylic acid Neopentanol - corresponding alcohol Neopentane - corresponding hydrocarbon Pivalamide - corresponding amide Pinacolone - corresponding methyl ketone