Please select a city below to get started. Methyl vinyl ketone (mvk, iupac name Butenone) is the organic compound with the formula ch 3 c (o)ch=ch 2 It is a reactive compound classified as an enone, in fact the simplest example thereof. In rat liver mitochondria, mvk is an alkylating agent and inhibitor of cellular (mitochondrial) respiration, less potent than acrolein by one order of magnitude. The mvk gene provides instructions for making the mevalonate kinase enzyme
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