acetylacetonate

English

Noun

acetylacetonate (plural acetylacetonates)

1. (organic chemistry) Any salt of the enol form of acetylacetone.
   • 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:

     He had clays and gels of silicate. He had silicone putties. He had slushy ferric salts succumbing to their own deliquescence. Ambivalent acetylacetonates and tetracarbonyls with low melting points.