Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🔤 Prefix for carbonyl group 🧪 With double-bonded oxygen
oxo

oxo

1 9.9
Used before a chemical name to show an oxygen atom double-bonded to carbon replacing hydrogen
  • other
  • Specialized
: oxo
  • The oxo prefix signifies that a carbonyl group replaces a hydrogen atom in the molecular structure.

You just go through an Oxo carbenian iron and have water attack.

Examples

  • The oxo prefix is used in organic chemistry to show a carbonyl group in a molecule.

  • In acetone, the oxo group is bonded to the central carbon atom.

  • Chemists often use oxo to describe compounds with a double-bonded oxygen atom.

  • The compound contains an oxo group.

  • In organic chemistry, an oxo derivative can enhance reactivity.

  • In the molecule of butan-2-one, the oxo group contributes to the compound's ketone properties.

  • When naming a compound, chemists often include oxo to indicate the presence of a double-bonded oxygen.

Surface Forms

oxo main

Etymology

Oxo as a prefix comes from the same root as oxygen and the Greek word oxys, meaning 'sharp' or 'acid'. So the oxo prefix in a name shows there is an oxygen double-bonded to a carbon replacing a hydrogen, and the root points you to 'oxygen' in the molecule.