Definition of Toluyl

1. n. Any one of the three hypothetical radicals corresponding to the three toluic acids.

Definition of Toluyl

1. Noun. (chemistry) Any of the three hypothetical radicals corresponding to the three toluic acids. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Toluyl

1. a univalent chemical radical [n -S]

Medical Definition of Toluyl

1. Any one of the three hypothetical radicals corresponding to the three toluic acids. Origin: Toluic + -yl. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Toluyl

toluidine blue
toluidine blue O
toluidines
toluidins
toluids
toluol
toluole
toluoles
toluols
toluoyl
toluric
toluric acid
toluric acids
tolus
tolutation
toluyl (current term)
toluylene
toluylene red
toluyls
tolvaptan
tolyl
tolylene
tolyls
tolypeutine
tolypeutines
tolzey
tolzeys
tom-tit
tom-tom

Literary usage of Toluyl

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 ScienceChemistry (1899)
"... group has the greatest, and the o-toluyl group the least, ... of the benzoyl is almost identical with that of the m-toluyl group. ..."

2. Optical Activity and Chemical Composition by Hans Landolt (1899)
"Methyl and ethyl esters of benzoyl and toluyl- malic acids. Frankland and Wharton.3 1 Frankland and McCrae, JCS 73, 307 (1898). » Calculated. ..."

3. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1869)
"... it is converted into toluic aldehyde, C*H"0 (Lauth and Grimaux). It is decomposed by sodium, yielding toluyl, (C'H0)*, and when treated with cyanide of ..."

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