Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.
Rhodizonic acid is a chemical compound with formula C6H2O6 or (CO)4(COH)2. It can be seen as a two-fold alcohol and four-fold ketone of cyclohexene more precisely 56-dihydroxycyclohex-5-ene-1234-tetrone. Rhodizonic acid is usually obtained in the form of a colorless dihydrate C6H2O6·2H2O. The latter is actually 235566-hexahydroxycyclohex-2-ene-14-dione where two of the original ketone groups are replaced by two pairs of geminal hydroxyls.
