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Dr. Glaser's Visualization Center
To accompany Bruice, Organic Chemistry, 3/e, Chapter 17

Theme Molecule Name Chemical Formula
Carbonyl Compounds in Nature (R)-(-)-carvone (S) C10H14O
Carbonyl Compounds in Nature (S)-(+)-carvone (S) C10H14O
Di-carbonyl Compounds acetylacetone (S) H3C-CO-CH2-CO-CH3
Di-carbonyl Compounds acetylacetonate (S) H3C-CO-CH2-CO-OCH3
Di-carbonyl Compounds butanedione (S) Me-CO-CO-Me
Nitrogen Derivatives of Carbonyl Compounds acetone oxime (S) (Me)2C=N-OH
Nitrogen Derivatives of Carbonyl Compounds acetone hydrazone (S) (Me)2C=N-NH2
Nitrogen Derivatives of Carbonyl Compounds acetone semicarbazone (S) (Me)2C=N-NH-CO-NH2

[a] Unless otherwise noted, structures were optimized at the correlated ab initio level MP2(full)/6-31G*.
[b] The structures of the natural products were optimized at the ab initio level RHF/6-31G*.