Definition of Thiophene

1. n. A sulphur hydrocarbon, C4H4S, analogous to furfuran and benzene, and acting as the base of a large number of substances which closely resemble the corresponding aromatic derivatives.

Definition of Thiophene

1. Noun. (organic compound) Any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds containing a ring of four carbon atoms and an sulphur atom; especially the simplest one, C4H4S. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Thiophene

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Thiophene

1. A sulphur hydrocarbon, C4H4S, analogous to furfuran and benzene, and acting as the base of a large number of substances which closely resemble the corresponding aromatic derivatives. Origin: Thio- + phenyl + -ene. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thiophene

thionyls
thiopanic acid
thiopental
thiopental sodium
thiopentals
thiopentobarbital sodium
thiopeptide
thiopeptides
thioperamide
thioperoxide
thioperoxides
thiophanate
thiophane
thiophanes
thiophen
thiophene (current term)
thiophenes
thiophenic
thiophenic acid
thiophenicol
thiophenol
thiophenols
thiophens
thiophil
thiophilic
thiophosgene
thiophosphatase
thiophosphate
thiophosphates
thiophthene

Literary usage of Thiophene

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

1. The Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry by Society of Chemical Industry (1884)
"SY On. the thiophene and Pyrrol Groups. Victor Meyer. Berl. Ber. 16, 2968. THE great similarity exhibited by thiophene, and the compounds already prepared ..."

2. A Manual of Materia Medica and Pharmacology: Comprising All Organic and by David Marvel Reynolds Culbreth (1917)
"Sodium thiophene-sulphonate, C1H.1S,SO.!Na. — This is a white crystalline powder, containing 33 pc sulphur, with a feeble, disagreeable odor, and used like ..."

3. A Manual of Materia Medica and Pharmacology: Comprising All Organic and by David Marvel Reynolds Culbreth (1906)
"PROPERTIES AND USES. — Inject subcutaneously for lupus, tuberculous diseases ; causes absorption of exudate, corneal opacities. 5. thiophene DERIVATIVES ..."

4. A Manual of Materia Medica and Pharmacology: Comprising All Organic and by David Marvel Reynolds Culbreth (1906)
"thiophene-Di-iodide.— Di-iodo-thiophene. ... Antiseptic. As a substitute for iodoform. Sodium thiophene-sulphonate ..."

5. A Text-book of Organic Chemistry by August Bernthsen (1891)
"thiophene in particular is delusively like the latter, eg in odour and boiling point, and its various derivatives often show a marvellous similarity in ..."

6. Practical organic and bio-chemistry by Robert Henry Aders Plimmer (1920)
"Its constitution has been shown to be HC —CH II II HC CH Y thiophene resembles benzene in its reactions more closely than ..."

7. Victor Von Richter's Organic Chemistry; Or, Chemistry of the Carbon by Victor von Richter, Richard Anschütz, Georg Schroeter (1900)
"thiophene is found in benzene, methyl thiophenes in toluene, etc. thiophene is also formed in considerable abundance by heating a mixture of sodium ..."

8. Victor Von Richter's Organic Chemistry; Or, Chemistry of the Carbon by Victor von Richter (1899)
"Sulphonic Adds : Like the benzene sulphonic acids, the thiophene sulpho-deriva- atives are produced by dissolving thiophene in sulphuric acid. ..."

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