The compound carvone is responsible for the odor of spearmint. Identify the functional groups in carvone.

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All right. Hi, everyone. So this question says that Thymo quinone is a major component of black human. Identify the functional groups of one and two. Option A says that both one and two are aldehydes. Option B says both one and two are ketones. Option C says that both one and two are ester. And option D says that one is an aldehyde and two is a keto. Now, in this case, we have three different functional groups to compare, we have the aldehyde, the key to and also the era. Now recall that what all three of these functional groups have in common is that all three of them contain a car bal group. Now a carbonel is simply a carbon atom double bonded to an oxygen atom. So all three of these functional groups have a car boal group. But the distinction is made from each other by considering what groups are attached to the car bono cart. Now, the aldehyde, for example, does have a car bono group, but the car bono carbon is attached to an R group as well as a hydrogen atom. Now recall that an R group refers to an all kill group. So if the carbon carbon is attached to one carbon atom and one hydrogen, that functional group would be in aldehyde. Now, by contrast, a key Toone would actually have two R groups attached to the car bono carbon, meaning that the ketone would have two carbon atoms attached to the carbonel carpet on either side. Whereas in Esther and Esther would have a carbel once again. But on one end of the car bal is an R group whereas on the other end, it is an or group. So notice the difference here, right on the carbon carbon of the ester or attached to the carbon carbon of the ester is one other carbon atom and an oxygen atom with that oxygen being attached to another group. So with this in mind, let's go ahead and consider functional groups one and two. Now because one and two are both Car bono carbons, we have to consider what groups are attached to them directly starting off with. Number one. For example, I can see that there are two carbon atoms directly attached to the car bal carbon. And this would match the description of the ketone functional group similarly, right, if I consider the car bono here labeled number two, I can see that there are once again two carbon atoms associated to this car bal carbon. So once again, we have a carbon carbon attaching to two OY groups, which means that functional group two also happens to be a ketone and there you have it. This means that our answer is going to be option B in the multiple choice because functional groups, one and two are both keytones. So with that being said, thank you so very much for watching and I hope you found this helpful.

The compound carvone is responsible for the odor of spearmint. Identify the functional groups in carvone.

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