aldehyde group
Noun
Meaning
the chemical group -CHO
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If the presence of another functional group demands the use of a suffix, the aldehyde group is named with the prefix formyl-.
The aldehyde group of this is reduced to a primary alcohol using the enzyme glucuronate reductase and the cofactor NADPH, yielding L -gulonic acid.
The group—without R—is the aldehyde group, also known as the formyl group.