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Webster 1913 Edition


Quinone

Qui′none

,
Noun.
[
Quin
ine + ket
one
.]
(Chem.)
A crystalline substance,
C6H4O2
(called also
benzoketone
), first obtained by the oxidation of quinic acid and regarded as a double ketone; also, by extension, any one of the series of which quinone proper is the type.
[Written also
chinone
,
kinone
.]

Definition 2024


quinone

quinone

English

Structure diagram of 1,4-benzoquinone (para-quinone)

Noun

quinone (plural quinones)

  1. (organic chemistry) Any of a class of aromatic compounds having two carbonyl functional groups in the same six-membered ring.

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