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Nomenclature of Derivative Aldehydes and Ketones 醛和酮 The IUPAC nomenclature for aldehydes and ketones follows the familiar pattern of selecting as the parent compound the longest chain of carbon atoms that contains the functional group.The aldehyde group is shown by changing the suffix-e of the parent name to -al.Because the aldehyde group can appear only at the end of a hydrocarbon chain and because numbering must start with it as carbon1,its position is unambiguous and therefore there is no need to use a number to locate it .Following are IUPAC names for several low-molecularweight ald