noun
- plural of ketene; organic compounds containing a carbon-carbon double bond adjacent to a carbonyl group
Usage: chemistry; technical
Examples
- Ketenes are highly reactive organic compounds used in synthetic chemistry.
- The laboratory synthesized several ketenes for the research project.
- Ketenes readily undergo cycloaddition reactions with various substrates.
- These ketenes were isolated and characterized using spectroscopic methods.
- The chemist studied the formation of ketenes under different reaction conditions.
- Ketenes can be generated through the thermal decomposition of certain precursors.