Definition of Six-membered

1. Adjective. Of a chemical compound having a ring with six members. "Having three carbon and three nitrogen atoms in a six-membered ring"

Exact synonyms: 6-membered
Similar to: Membered

Lexicographical Neighbors of Six-membered

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sivers
sivvens
siwash
siwashes
siwin
six-figure
six-footedness
six-footer
six-gilled shark
six-gun
six-guns
six-leggedness
six-lined racerunner
six-membered (current term)
six-pack
six-packs
six-penny nail
six-shooter
six-shooters
six-spot
six-yard box
six and two threes
six bob a day tourist
six feet under
six foot
six hundred
six o'clock
six of one, half a dozen of the other

Literary usage of Six-membered

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 (1879)
"spectra and thermal stabilities of six-membered hetero- cycles containing ... The evident stability of the six-membered heterocycles in complexes 5 and 9 ..."

2. A Textbook of Organic Chemistry by Joseph Scudder Chamberlain (1921)
"That pyridine is a six membered ring analogous to pyrrole is proven by the fact previously referred to (p. 854), that potassium pyrrole by the action of ..."

3. Victor Von Richter's Organic Chemistry; Or, Chemistry of the Carbon by Victor von Richter, Richard Anschütz, Georg Schroeter (1900)
"As in the case of the aromatic derivatives, this behavior is assumed to be due to the existence of a six-membered ring, consisting of five carbon atoms and ..."

4. Victor Von Richter's Organic Chemistry; Or, Chemistry of the Carbon by Victor von Richter (1899)
"... pyrrol comes into juxtaposition with that of the six-membered pyridine, although the representatives of these two groups manifest very great differences ..."

5. Victor Von Richter's Organic Chemistry; Or, Chemistry of the Carbon by Victor von Richter, Richard Anschütz, Georg Schroeter (1900)
"The tendency to the formation of six-membered rings is shown also in the processes of polymerization ; formaldehyde, by the coalition of three molecules, ..."

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