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Organic Chemicals > Quinones > Benzoquinones > Dibromothymoquinone

Preferred term

Dibromothymoquinone  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • 2,5 Dibromo 3 methyl 6 isopropyl p benzoquinone
  • 2,5-Dibromo-3-methyl-6-isopropyl-p-benzoquinone

Scope note

  • At low concentrations, this compound inhibits reduction of conventional hydrophilic electron acceptors, probably acting as a plastoquinone antagonist. At higher concentrations, it acts as an electron acceptor, intercepting electrons either before or at the site of its inhibitory activity.

History note

  • 91(75); was see under QUINONES 1975-90

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D003991

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