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Q. Ketone is much less soluble than aldehyde because of:

Aldehydes Ketones and Carboxylic Acids

Solution:

Ketone is much less soluble than aldehyde because in ketone, both the sides bulky groups are attached but with aldehyde only one side bulky group is present except $H

-\overset{\underset{||}{O}}{C} -H$

Therefore, aldehyde posses much more strong hydrogen bonding than ketone with water