|
|
Definition of Homocyclic
1. Adjective. Containing a closed ring of atoms of the same kind especially carbon atoms.
Definition of Homocyclic
1. Adjective. (chemistry) describing a cyclic system in which all the atoms of the ring are of the same element ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Homocyclic
Literary usage of Homocyclic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1903)
"It is immaterial whether the closed chains are homocyclic or heterocyclic ...
Naphthalene. i с If we say that the compounds which are homocyclic are ..."
2. The Chemistry of Petroleum and Its Substitutes: A Practical Handbook by Charles Kenneth Tinkler, Frederick Challenger (1915)
"The most important members of the homocyclic division are those compounds ...
The most important member of the aromatic division of the homocyclic compounds ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1904)
"It is immaterial whether the closed chains are homocyclic 01 heterocyclic; ...
&c. ; but the rings may be either homocyclic or heterocyclic without the ..."
4. A Dictionary of Chemical Terms by James Fitton Couch (1920)
"A homocyclic six membered ring designed to represent the structure of benzene
... Ring, homocyclic. A ring in which all of the members are atoms of the same ..."
5. A Compend of Medical Chemistry: Inorganic and Organic, Including Urinary by Henry Leffmann (1905)
"Three is the smallest number of atoms that can form a ring. When the ring is
composed of one kind of atoms, the molecule is homocyclic or ..."
6. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1922)
"The benzine ring is homocyclic, since carbon is always the link, and it always
has six sides. In aB stimulus nitrogen is substituted for carbon at one ..."
Other Resources:
