tropolone
/ˈtrɒpələʊn
/noun [mass noun] Chemistry
An organic compound present in various plants, with a molecule based on a seven-membered carbon ring.
- Chemical formula: C7H6O2.
- Most remarkably, with the addition of one water molecule to tropolone the observed tunneling splitting vanishes.
- Various derivatives of tropolone have been synthesized, and recently three independent syntheses of tropolone have been described.
Origin
1940s: from tropilidine (a liquid hydrocarbon) + -ol + -one.