quinoidization
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[edit]Noun
[edit]quinoidization (uncountable)
- (organic chemistry) Modification by addition of, or conversion to a quinone.
- 2011, Sandra R. González, “The frontiers of quinoidal stability in long oligothiophenes: raman spectra of dicationic polaron pairs”, in Journal of the American Chemical Society, volume 133, number 41, page 16350:
- Our hypothesis is similar for these dications: dication formation provokes the quinoidization of the thienyl core, but this quinoidal structure is not indefinitely stable and there is an oligomer length at which it experiences instability, turning into an aromatic-like structure with a biradicaloid nature.