Definition of Nitro group

1. Noun. The group -NO3.

Generic synonyms: Chemical Group, Group, Radical
Substance meronyms: Nitrate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nitro Group

nitrimine
nitrimines
nitrimuriatic acid
nitrite
nitrite bacterium
nitrite dehydrogenase
nitrite reductases
nitrites
nitritoid reaction
nitrituria
nitro
nitro-
nitro-hydrochloric
nitro-hydrochloric acid
nitro dye
nitro group (current term)
nitro sugar
nitroacetophenone reductase
nitroaldol
nitroalkane
nitroalkane oxidase
nitroalkanes
nitroalkene
nitroalkenes
nitroamide
nitroamides
nitroamine
nitroamines
nitroanilide
nitroaniline

Literary usage of Nitro group

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1915)
"The nitro group thus remains in fixed position upon the same carbon atom, that is, ... and supposed by him to have a structure in which the nitro group ..."

2. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1908)
"... so that the tri- and tetramethoxy- benzenes tend to form quinones and a nitro group enters only when the para positions are free; alkyl (propyl) groups ..."

3. A Text-book of organic chemistry by Arnold Frederick Holleman (1908)
"For compounds containing the hydroxyl-group and the sulpho- group or the halogens, cf. respectively 333 and 336. IV. COMPOUNDS WITH THE nitro group AND ..."

4. Organic Chemistry for Advanced Students by Julius Berend Cohen (1918)
"The colour is not due to the additional electronegative nitro group, ... Hantzsch concludes that the second nitro group plays a part in the production of ..."

5. A Text-book of Organic Chemistry by August Bernthsen (1891)
"Nitric acid therefore contains a nitro-group bound to ... So long as hydrogen, as well as this bromine and the nitro-group, remains joined to the carbon ..."

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