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Polyene vs Polymethine - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between polyene and polymethine

is that polyene is an organic compound containing several double bonds, especially one containing a sequence of many alternating single and double bonds while polymethine is a compound made up from an odd number of methine groups bound together by alternating single and double bonds.

polyene

English

Noun

(wikipedia polyene) (en noun)
  • (chemistry) An organic compound containing several double bonds, especially one containing a sequence of many alternating single and double bonds

    • polymethine

    English

    (wikipedia polymethine)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (organic chemistry) A compound made up from an odd number of methine groups bound together by alternating single and double bonds.

    • See also

    * polyene (a similar compound with an even number of methine groups)