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Trihydroxyanthraquinone


A trihydroxyanthraquinone or trihydroxyanthracenedione is any of several isomeric organic compounds with formula C
14
H
8
O
5
, formally derived from anthraquinone by replacing three hydrogen atoms by hydroxyl groups. They include several historically important dyes. The isomers may differ in the parent anthraquinone isomer and/or of the three hydroxyl groups.

In general there are 56 ways of choosing three out of the 8 hydrogens. However, if the underlying core is symmetrical, some of these choices will give identical molecules.

Due to the symmetry of the 9,10-anthraquinone core, there are only 14 isomers.


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