Preparation of Aldehydes and Ketones

Having covered how aldehydes and ketones are classified and named, the chapter turns next to how they are actually made in the laboratory. Section 12.4.1 covers the GENERAL methods usable for making both aldehydes and ketones together -- oxidation or dehydrogenation of alcohols, and two reactions starting from hydrocarbons (ozonolysis of alkenes, hydration of alkynes). Sections 12.4.2 and 12.4.3 then cover further, more specific preparative routes that start instead from OTHER functional groups already installed on the molecule -- …