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Why do aldehydes and ketones have high dipole moments ?

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Aldehydes and ketones have high dipole moments due to the presence of Oxygen atom in them that is highly electronegative. Also the bond length of carbon-oxygen double bond in the carbonyl group is lesser than the carbon-oxygen single bond in alcohols, ethers, etc leading to more polarity in the carbonyl group.

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