Meaning & use
Enediol
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In organic chemistry, a structural group consisting of a carbon-carbon double bond with a hydroxyl group attached to each of the two carbons.
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The isomerization of glucose to fructose proceeds through an enediol intermediate.
Chemists mapped the enediol formed during the sugar's rearrangement reaction.
A note on using this word
Enediol blends 'ene' (a carbon-carbon double bond) with 'diol' (two hydroxyl groups), and the term appears almost exclusively in biochemistry, particularly in discussions of sugar chemistry.
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