Xanthone Sentence Examples

Baeyer has suggested that the nine carbon atom system of xanthone may act as a chromophore.

An alternative view, due to Green, is that the oxygen atom of the xanthone ring is tetravalent, a supposition which permits the formulation of these substances as ortho-quinonoids.

When heated in air for many hours it decomposes, yielding carbon dioxide, phenol and xanthone.