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- noun organic chemistry the
nitroso derivative ofbenzene C6H5-NO; it is used to makeazo compounds
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_Azo-benzene_, C_6H_5N: NC_6H_5, discovered by E. Mitscherlich in 1834, may be prepared by reducing nitrobenzene in alcoholic solution with zinc dust and caustic soda; by the condensation of nitrosobenzene with aniline in hot glacial acetic acid solution; or by the oxidation of aniline with sodium hypobromite.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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The key to a "bottom-up" production of possibly the first heterometallic gallium-indium hydroxide nanocluster was the substitution of nitroso-butylamine as an additive in place of nitrosobenzene.
UO HomePage News 2008
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Demonstrating that process, the group showed that nitrobenzene reacts to form a surface-bound nitrosobenzene adduct.
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