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Definition of Aromatic compound
1. Noun. A hydrocarbon containing one or more benzene rings that are characteristic of the benzene series of compounds.
Definition of Aromatic compound
1. Noun. (organic chemistry) Any compound which exhibits aromaticity. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Aromatic compound
1. Any compound in which the constituent atoms, or any part of them, form a ring. Used mainly in organic chemistry where: 1) numerous compound's contain rings of carbon atoms (carbocyclic compound's) or carbon atoms plus one or more atoms of other types (heterocyclic compound's), usually nitrogen, oxygen, or sulfur; 2) where the atoms in the ring are all of the same element (homocyclic or isocyclic compound); 3) where the ring is saturated or contains nonconjugated double bonds (alicyclic compound), the compound is similar in properties to the corresponding acyclic compound (e.g., cyclohexane resembles hexane); 4) where the ring contains conjugated double bonds in a closed loop in which there are 4n + 2 (where n is an integer) delocalised π electrons (Huckel's rule) (aromatic compound; e.g., benzene, pyridine), it is more stable than the corresponding saturated ring and exhibits unusual chemical properties characteristic of itself and not of other types of rings or of acyclic compound's. These aromatic compounds have the ability to sustain an induced ring current. Synonym: closed chain compound, ring compound. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aromatic Compound
Literary usage of Aromatic compound
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Canadian Institute by Canadian Institute (1849-1914)., Royal Canadian Institute (1904)
"aromatic compound. The foregoing experiments show that the oxygen naturally
dissolved in the upper fourteen inches of water had, ..."
2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1892)
"Crude carbolic acid " and phenols of a higher boiling point than carbolic acid
are mixed " with water and with a metallic salt of an aromatic compound of ..."
3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1898)
"In this latter, the colour would appear to be due to the formation of aii aromatic
compound, and not directly to an alteration in the molybdate. ..."
4. The Chemical Constitution of the Proteins by Robert Henry Aders Plimmer (1908)
"... was really the first to show that tyrosine was an aromatic compound, when he
obtained chloranil ... considered that it was not an aromatic compound. ..."
5. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer (1892)
"... and distilled with steam, a distillate being thus obtained which only contains
traces of the aromatic compound, which may be removed by treatment with a ..."
6. Text-book of chemistry: Inorganic and Organic, with Toxicology; for Students by Rudolph August Witthaus (1919)
"They are usually produced by the action of fuming H2S04 upon the aromatic compound,
with or without the aid of heat. The sulphonic acids are not decomposed ..."
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