Organic Chemical
lactone Audio
lac·tone [ lak-tohn ]
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Organic Chemicals
Definitions related to lactones:
  • Cyclic organic compound in which the chain is closed by ester formation between a carboxyl and a hydroxyl group in the same molecule.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • (lactone compound) Cyclic esters of hydroxy carboxylic acids, containing a 1-oxacycloalkan-2-one structure, or analogues having unsaturation or heteroatoms replacing one or more carbon atoms of the ring (IUPAC).
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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