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- noun organic chemistry Any
unsaturated alicyclic ketone derived fromcyclopentene
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The active anti-bacterial constituent of Sargassum kjellmanianum, has been found to be a cyclopentenone (Fenical, 1983), whose structure has been determined.
Chapter 7 1991
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