butenone

English

Noun

butenone (countable and uncountable, plural butenones)

1. (organic chemistry) The unsaturated aliphatic ketone but-3-en-2-one CH₂=CH-CO-CH₃
   • 2016, Sergi Ruiz-Barragan, Kazuya Ishimura, Motoyuki Shiga, “On the hierarchical parallelization of ab initio simulations”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     The code was then used to study a Diels-Alder reaction of cyclopentadiene and butenone by ab initio string method.

Synonyms

• methyl vinyl ketone