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Definition of Nitriles
1. nitrile [n] - See also: nitrile
Medical Definition of Nitriles
1. Organic compounds containing the -cn radical. The concept is distinguished from cyanides, which denotes inorganic salts of hydrogen cyanide. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nitriles
Literary usage of Nitriles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Organic Chemistry by Arnold Frederik Holleman (1920)
"78] nitriles. primary amines. Secondary and tertiary amines are not ... nitriles can
be prepared by the action of an alkaline bromine solution on the higher ..."
2. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1867)
"These nitriles, when fused with potassium, yield potassic ... The nitriles, when
treated with an alkali, do not reproduce hydrocyanic acid, ..."
3. Victor Von Richter's Organic Chemistry; Or, Chemistry of the Carbon by Victor von Richter, Richard Anschütz, Georg Schroeter (1900)
"All these reactions depend npoa the additive power of the nitriles, ... If,
however, sodium acts upon the pure nitriles at a temperature of 150° the ..."
4. Victor Von Richter's Organic Chemistry; Or, Chemistry of the Carbon by Victor von Richter, Richard Anschütz, Georg Schroeter (1899)
"All these reactions depend upon the additive power of the nitriles, ... If,
however, sodium acts upon the pure nitriles at a temperature of 150° the ..."
5. Catalysis in Organic Chemistryby Paul Sabatier by Paul Sabatier (1922)
"It is evident that the hydrogenation of aliphatic nitriles gives us a valuable and
... Aromatic nitriles. The results are not nearly as good with aromatic ..."
6. Electrolysis and Electrosynthesis of Organic Compounds by Walther Löb (1898)
"nitriles.—Ahrens,' by means of the electrolytic addition of hydrogen, succeeded
in converting nitriles into primary amines, while simultaneously with the ..."
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