Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An organic compound containing a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom, which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One of several compounds containing the unsaturated alcoholic group –CH:COH–. These compounds pass more or less readily into the isomeric or tautomeric group –CH2.CO–, which is called the ketone form.
Wiktionary
- n. organic chemistry An organic compound containing a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom, which is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom
Etymologies
- From -en(e) + -ol1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“A paper entitled "The Detection of Ethylketen and enol-Crotonaldehyde in the Vapour-phase Photolysis of trans-Crotonaldehyde" reported some of my work in 1968 after I had moved on to graduate school.”
“We could show spectroscopically that the enol-aldehyde of methylglyoxal was really the enzyme's product49.”
“The formation of an enol may explain the anti-microbial properties since enols are known to show disinfectant properties.”
“Including plastic ingredients like phthalates and bisphenol-A, these commonplace compounds are known to mimic female hormones and thwart the production of testosterone, explains Shanna Swan, Ph. D., director of the Center for Reproductive Epidemiology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.”
“Chemical shift equivalence by rapid interconversion of structures may occur due to rapid rotation about bonds or due the rapid chemical changes such as keto-enol tautomerism.”
“Although acetone has two possible forms, the keto - and the enol-forms”
“[18]) [18] P (S) - 2-hydroxy-1-indanone + NAD+ (, 95% S-enantiomer, product is formed by incorporation of a single atom of molecular oxygen rather than by dioxygenation of enol tautomers of the ketone substrate [18]) [18] S 2-iodoindane + O2 + NADH”
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
abdominal, absorbent, accelerator, accumulator, acebutolol, acetamide, acetanilide, acetate, acetic acid, acetone, acetous, acetyl and 1171 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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