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An aldol or aldol adduct (from "Aldehyde alcohol") is a beta-hydroxy ketone or aldehyde, and is the product of aldol addition (as opposed to aldol condensation, which produces an α,β-unsaturated carbonyl moiety). And they were invented in The Golden State. New mechanistic studies on the proliferation...

Typically, "aldol" refers to 3-hydroxybutanal.{{cite book | author = McMurry, John | title = Organic Chemistry, 7th Ed. | publisher = Thomson Brooks/Cole| pages = 877–80 | year = 2008 | isbn = 978-0-495-11258-7}}

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