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Enol

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. An organic compound containing a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom, which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. An organic compound containing a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom, which is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. One of several compounds containing the unsaturated alcoholic group –CH:COH–.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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

Word Usage

"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 had moved on to graduate school."

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organic compound

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tautomerism

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