Word.ws English Dictionary

benzotropolone

benzotropolone noun: any compound containing a benzene ring fused to one of a tropolone.

Noun

benzotropolone (plural benzotropolones)

  1. Any compound containing a benzene ring fused to one of a tropolone
    • PPG, a natural benzotropolone compound extracted from nutgalls, was found in a high-throughput screening of natural products to identify inhibitors of PBD-dependent binding [61] .2015 June 5, Xiaoqi Liu, “Targeting Polo-Like Kinases: A Promising Therapeutic Approach for Cancer Treatment1”, in Translational Oncology, volume 8, →DOI

Forms of benzotropolone

pluralbenzotropolones

Origin of benzotropolone

From benzo- + tropolone.

Questions about benzotropolone

What does benzotropolone mean?
Benzotropolone means any compound containing a benzene ring fused to one of a tropolone.
What part of speech is benzotropolone?
Benzotropolone is a noun.
What is the plural of benzotropolone?
The plural of benzotropolone is benzotropolones.

Words near benzotropolone in the dictionary

  1. benzotriazolic acids
  2. benzotrichloride
  3. benzotrifluoride
  4. benzotrifluorides
  5. benzotript
  6. benzotropolone
  7. benzotropolones
  8. benzoxaborole
  9. benzoxaboroles
  10. benzoxadiazine
  11. benzoxadiazines

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: benzotropolone (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “benzotropolone.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/benzotropolone. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.