butenone
butenone noun: the unsaturated aliphatic ketone but-3-en-2-one CH₂=CH-CO-CH₃.
Noun
butenone (countable and uncountable, plural butenones)
- The unsaturated aliphatic ketone but-3-en-2-one CH₂=CH-CO-CH₃
- The code was then used to study a Diels-Alder reaction of cyclopentadiene and butenone by ab initio string method.2016, Sergi Ruiz-Barragan, Kazuya Ishimura, Motoyuki Shiga, “On the hierarchical parallelization of ab initio simulations”, in arXiv
- Synonyms:
- methyl vinyl ketone
Synonyms of butenone
Forms of butenone
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Questions about butenone
- What does butenone mean?
- Butenone means the unsaturated aliphatic ketone but-3-en-2-one CH₂=CH-CO-CH₃.
- What part of speech is butenone?
- Butenone is a noun.
- What is the plural of butenone?
- The plural of butenone is butenones.
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