quinone

quinone

English

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

Alternative forms

• chinone (dated)

Etymology

quinic acid +‎ -one, since it is one of the compounds obtained upon oxidation of quinic acid.

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.

Derived terms

• benzoquinone
• dioxyquinone
• hydroquinone
• lipoquinone
• orthoquinone
• paraquinone
• quinonic
• ventiloquinone, isoventiloquinone

Translations

compound

Catalan: quinona f Chinese: Cantonese: 醌 (kwan1) Mandarin: 醌 (zh) (kūn) Irish: cuineon m Italian: chinone (it) m Japanese: キノン (kinon) Korean: 퀴논 (kwinon) Latvian: hinons m Persian: کینون‎ (kinon) Polish: chinon m Spanish: quinona f Thai: ควิโนน

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French

Noun

quinone f (plural quinones)

1. quinone

Further reading

• “quinone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.