An acyl group is a functional group derived from carboxylic acids by removing a hydroxyl group (-OH), typically represented as RCO-, where R is an organic substituent. In the context of naming aldehydes and ketones, it indicates the presence of a carbonyl group (C=O) bonded to an alkyl or aryl group.
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