What's the difference between ubiquinone and quinone?
What's the difference between ubiquinone and quinone?

Is the quinone a basic structure of an ubiquinone?

I want to know what does the 'Ubi-' mean in 'ubiquinone' and how to pronounciate it.

Thank you very much.

Question

What's the difference between ubiquinone and quinone?
What's the difference between ubiquinone and quinone?

Is the quinone a basic structure of an ubiquinone?

I want to know what does the 'Ubi-' mean in 'ubiquinone' and how to pronounciate it.

Thank you very much.

Answer

This article might answer the first two questions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coenzyme_Q10.

"Ubi" generally means "where", but I'm not sure how that meaning relates to the compound. In my experience it's commonly pronounced "you-BI" ("ubiquitous"), but sometimes it's "OO-bi" (as in Ubisoft). Oh, and "pronounciate" => "pronounce".

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