What is the difference between ketone, aldehyde and carboxyl group?

Quote from: Pranjal Singh on January 29, 2021, 03:53:47 AM
What is the difference between ketone, aldehyde and carboxyl group?

They all are carbonyl compounds but in ketones there are two R(alkyl) groups on either side of C=O,in aldehydes one R(alkyl) groups on one side of C=O and one side has H , and in
carboxyl group there is one R and one OH group.
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