Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A five-membered heterocyclic ring compound, C4H5N, having an odor similar to chloroform, that is the parent compound of protoporphyrin.
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- noun organic chemistry Any of a class of
aromatic heterocyclic compounds containing a ring of fourcarbon atoms and anitrogen atom; especially the simplest one, C4H5N.
Etymologies
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First reported in 1993 (ref. 2), it is part of a family of compounds known as pyrrole-imidazole alkaloids, which may help to deter fish from snacking on the sponge or prevent microbes from taking up residence.
Scientific American 2010
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But I thought I used a simple SMILES when I typed C1CNCC1, but ChemSpider got it wrong : The correct structure should be pyrrolidine, not pyrrole.
Archive 2009-08-01 Egon Willighagen 2009
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Fischer received the greatest honour of all, the Nobel Prize for 1930, for his work on the chemistry of pyrrole and the synthesis of haemin.
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Fischer's scientific work was mostly concerned with the investigation of the constitutive properties of the pigments in blood, bile, and also leaves, as well as with the chemistry of pyrrole.
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It was discovered that the haemin molecule can be converted by certain chemical procedures into iron-free substances, called porphyrins, and that the porphyrins can be broken down, by other procedures, into pyrrole derivatives, i.e. into compounds containing four carbon atoms and one nitrogen atom in a closed ring.
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The main reason for the latter investigation was the synthesis of these natural pyrrole pigments.
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If we remember moreover that the pyrrole complexes determined by Fischer are contained as basic components partly in the principal catalysts of respiration, partly in an enzyme (catalase) which is indispensable to all living cells, it will be found that the intrinsic value of the researches on it is in full accord with the prize which will now be awarded.
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The aroma of coffee is, he found, composed of extremely complex substances, among which are derivatives of furan and pyrrole, and substances containing sulphur.
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The leaf decomposition product, called Ma-FCC-61, is a pyrrole pigment with a previously unknown sugar unit attachment.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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The leaf decomposition product, called Ma-FCC-61, is a pyrrole pigment with a previously unknown sugar unit attachment.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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