Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A term applied, in organic chemistry, to compounds containing, in their molecule, three phenyl radicals (C6H5). It is also used as a combining-form.
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- noun organic chemistry, in combination Three
phenyl groups in a compound
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Examples
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University, Adolf von Baeyer, for his researches into the composition of indigo as well as into the triphenyl methane dyestuffs.
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Neelson found that the pigment of _B. cyanogenus_ gives a band in the yellow and strong lines at E and F in the solar spectrum -- an absorption spectrum almost identical with that of triphenyl-rosaniline.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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Aniline combines directly with alkyl iodides to form secondary and tertiary amines; boiled with carbon disulphide it gives sulphocarbanilide (diphenyl thio-urea), CS (NHC_ H_ ) _ , which may be decomposed into phenyl mustard-oil, C_ H_ CNS, and triphenyl guanidine, C_ H_ N: C (NHC_ H_ ) _ .
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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The azido functionality was then reduced to amine on treatment with triphenyl phosphine and H
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