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pinacolones

pinacolones is the plural of pinacolone.

Meaning of pinacolone

Noun

pinacolone (countable and uncountable, plural pinacolones)

  1. A ketone with a peppermint odour, used mainly in the synthesis of triazolylpinacolone to produce the fungicide triadimefon and in synthesis of the herbicide metribuzin.

Questions about pinacolones

What is pinacolones the plural of?
Pinacolones is the plural of pinacolone.

Words near pinacolones in the dictionary

  1. pinacolboranes
  2. pinacolic
  3. pinacolin
  4. pinacolins
  5. pinacolone
  6. pinacolones
  7. pinacols
  8. pinacolyl
  9. pinacolyls
  10. pinacone
  11. pinacones

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