benzosemiquinone

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English

Etymology

From benzo- +‎ semiquinone.

Noun

benzosemiquinone (plural benzosemiquinones)

  1. (organic chemistry) Any semiquinone derived from benzoquinone
    • 2014 July 15, Patrick J. O’Malley, Colin A. Wraight, Sergei A. Dikanov, “Hyperfine and Nuclear Quadrupole Tensors of Nitrogen Donors in the QA Site of Bacterial Reaction Centers: Correlation of the Histidine Nδ Tensors with Hydrogen Bond Strength”, in The Journal of Physical Chemistry. B, volume 118, →DOI:
      Though the relative orientations of methylimidazole and benzosemiquinone had little impact on the N δ nqi tensor, Fritscher found the hydrogen bond length to have a dramatic effect on η (Figure S9, Supporting Information ). 32 Shortening the N···O distance from 3.25 to 2.75 Å resulted in an increase in η from 0.17 to 0.61.