Definition of Methylenes

1. methylene [n] - See also: methylene

Lexicographical Neighbors of Methylenes

methylene diphosphonate
methylene group
methylene radical
methylene tetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase-methenyltetrahydrofolate cyclohydrolase
methylene white
methylenebis(chloroaniline)
methylenechloride
methylenedioxybenzylpiperazine
methylenedioxybenzylpiperazines
methylenedioxymethamphetamine
methylenedioxyphenyl
methylenedioxyphenyls
methylenedioxypyrovalerone
methylenediphosphonate
methylenediphosphonates
methylenes
methylenesuccinic acid
methylenetetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase
methylenetetrahydromethanopterin dehydrogenase
methylenic
methylenophil
methylenophilic
methylergometrine
methylergometrine maleate
methylergonovine
methylergonovine maleate
methylerythritol
methylethylketone
methylformate synthase
methylglucamine

Literary usage of Methylenes

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

1. A Textbook of Organic Chemistry by Joseph Scudder Chamberlain (1921)
"Poly-methylenes, Cyclo Paraffins.—The names tetra-methylene or cyclo ... For the homologous series the names poly-methylenes or cyclo paraffins are used. ..."

2. A Text-book of Organic Chemistry by August Bernthsen (1891)
"A. Tri-, Tetra-, and Penta-methylenes. Derivatives of tri- and tetra-methylene, in especial carboxylic acids, eg Tri methylene-mono-carboxylic acid, ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1903)
"But when later the origin and nature of the methylenes were better understood and cyclic hydrocarbons found in petroleum identical with the synthetic ..."

4. Chemistry of Gas Manufacture by William John Atkinson Butterfield (1907)
"The lighter fractions of many samples are chiefly methylenes or naphthenes, ... It consists generally of methylenes or naphthenes, and contains more of the ..."

5. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"The direct cycloaddition of tri- methylenes has not been observed despite attempts in that direction, 'l but that of some isoelectronic species is very well ..."

6. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"Still later work with hydroxy-poly- methylenes (Chem. Soc. Trans. 1906, 89, 1533), using the acetic anhydride method, indicates that these compounds are ..."

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