Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ketol

/ˈki.tɑl/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ke-tol
IPA: /ˈki.tɑl/

9

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A hydroxyketone (e.g., an acyloin).

Example Sentences

"1962, James A. Moore, Erich Heftmann, Chapter 2: Chemistry of the adrenocortical steroids, Helen Wendler Deane, The Adrenocortical Hormones, Part 1, Springer-Verlag, page 221, The 21-hydroxyl group in the α-ketol side chain is very easily esterified, and in many of the synthetic routes leading to these side chains the ketol acetate is still formed."
"Consider the enolization (Scheme 3.26) of the methyl ester of acetoacetic acid, a reaction involving ketol-enol tautomerism."
"The steroid acetates are stable derivatives, having the desirable property that the electron-capture detector (ECD) selectively responds to acetyl derivatives of α-ketols [958]."

Etymology

Blend of ketone + indol.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈki.tɑl/
British English: /ˈkiː.tɒl/

Inflected Forms

ketols (plural)

Derived Forms

ketolated ketolation ketolic methylketol

Questions

How do you pronounce ketol?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈki.tɑl/.
What does ketol mean?: A hydroxyketone (e.g., an acyloin).
Where does ketol come from?: Blend of ketone + indol.

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