noun
- Organic compounds containing two carbon-carbon double bonds; also called dienes.
Usage: chemistry; plural form of diolefin
Examples
- Diolefins are important building blocks in polymer chemistry.
- The reaction between diolefins and dienophiles follows the Diels-Alder mechanism.
- Butadiene is one of the most commercially important diolefins.
- Diolefins can undergo polymerization to form synthetic rubber.
- The conjugated diolefins are more reactive than isolated double bonds.