quinone

English

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

Alternative forms

• chinone (dated)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkwɪnəʊn/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈkwɪnoʊn/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈkwɪnəʉn/

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

• anthraquinone
• benzoquinone
• carbazolequinone
• dioxyquinone
• hydroquinone
• hydroxyquinone
• indolequinone
• isochromanequinone
• isoventiloquinone
• lipoquinone
• murrayaquinone
• orthobenzoquinone
• orthoquinone
• parabenzoquinone
• paraquinone
• phenanthrenequinone
• phlorone
• plastoquinone
• pyrayaquinone
• pyrroloquinolinequinone
• quinoid
• quinone imine
• quinone methide
• quinonic
• quinonimine
• quinonization
• quinonize
• quinonoid
• quinonoxime
• quinonyl
• quinoyl
• rhodoquinone
• semiquinone
• thioquinone
• trimethylhydroquinone
• ventiloquinone
• xyloquinone

Translations

compound

• Catalan: quinona f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 醌 (kwan¹)

  Mandarin: 醌 (zh) (kūn)

• Czech: chinon m
• Greek: κινόνη (el) f (kinóni)
• 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

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

quinone f (plural quinones)

1. quinone

Further reading

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