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Acetophenone

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Ac`e`to`phe´none    (~fē´nōn)
n.1.(Chem.) A crystalline ketone, CH3.CO.C6H5, which may be obtained by the dry distillation of a mixture of the calcium salts of acetic and benzoic acids. It is used as a hypnotic under the name of hypnone.


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Picrorhiza kurroa is a medicinal herb containing a number of active ingredients, including acetophenone derivatives (which have anti-asthmatic properties), kutkin (kutkoside and iridioids, which are hepato-protective), and curcubitacins (which have anti-tumor effects) (Picrorhiza kurroa, 2001).
1) Type I, or cleavage, photoinitiators are efficient and often use acetophenone derivatives to cleave a photoinitiator and produce two initiating radicals.
Acetophenone derivatives and benzophenone derivatives also comprise condensation products of acetophenone derivatives or benzophenone derivatives, comprising at least two acetophenone or benzophenone groups.
 
 
 
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