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Penguinone

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Formula
  
C10H14O

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Penguinone is an organic compound with the molecular formula C
10
H
14
O
. Its name comes from the fact that its 2-dimensional molecular structure resembles a penguin.

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The suffix "-one" indicates that it is a ketone. The systematic name of the molecule is 3,4,4,5-tetramethylcyclohexa-2,5-dienone.

Although it is a dienone and thus has the necessary structure for dienone phenol rearrangement, the methyl groups in positions 3 and 5 of the ring block the movement of the group at position 4, so even the action of trifluoroacetic acid will not cause transformation to a phenol.

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