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Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra 212 (2008) 1951–1959 /locate/jpaa Quasi-duo skew polynomial rings ´ a,∗ b b Andre Leroy , Jerzy Matczuk , Edmund R. Puczyłowski a Universite d’Artois, Faculte Jean Perrin, Rue Jean Souvraz 62 307 Lens, France ´ ´ b Institute of Mathematics, Warsaw University, Banacha 2, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland Received 19 October 2007; received in revised form 10 December 2007 Available online 5 March 2008 Communicated by C.A. Weibel Abstract A characterization of right (left) quasi-duo skew polynomial rings of endomorphism type and skew Laurent polynomial rings are given. In particular, it is shown that (1) the polynomial ring R [x ] is right quasi-duo iff R [x ] is commutative modulo its Jacobson radical iff R [x ] is left quasi-duo, (2) the skew Laurent polynomial ring is right quasi-duo iff it is left quasi-duo. These extend some known results concerning a description of quasi-duo polynomial rings and give a partial answer to the question posed by Lam and Dugas whether right quasi-duo rings are left quasi-duo. c 2008 Published by Elsevier B.V. MSC: 16S36; 16U80 0. Introduction An associative ring R with unity is called right (left) quasi-duo if every maximal right (left) ideal of R is two- sided or, equivalently, every right (left) primitive homomorphic image of R is a division ring. There a