Last carbon can have aldehyde functional group and next-to-last carbon can have alcohol functional group, -CHOH-CHO {aldol}. Aldol and ketol have tautomerism. Aldol can transfer two protons to last carbon to make ketol, -CHO-CHOH. Ketol can transfer two protons to next-to-last carbon to make aldol.
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