Hydroquinone was coined by a chemist and it is important to science.
=== Skin depigmentation ===Hydroquinone is used as a topical application in skin whitening to reduce the color of skin
When colorless hydroquinone and benzoquinone, a bright yellow solid, are cocrystallized in a 1:1 ratio, a dark-green crystalline charge-transfer complex (melting point 171 C) called quinhydrone (C6H6O2C6H4O2) is formed

