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Definition of Carbonium

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Carbonium

1. An organic cation in which the positive charge is on a carbon atom; e.g., (CH3)+. It is now recommended that carbocation be used as the class name and carbenium be used for specific compound names. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Carbonium

Literary usage of Carbonium

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 (1910)
"That they may be carbonium salts has been suggested by Stieglitz,3 but he concludes that at present the preference must be given to the oxonium form. ..."

2. A Contribution to the Study of the Relation Between Color and Constitution by Lucas Petrou Kyriakides (1911)
"The above observation led Baeyer to the development of the "carbonium" theory. ... The valence peculiar to the colored salts he called the carbonium valence ..."

3. Organic Chemistry for Advanced Students by Julius Berend Cohen (1918)
"the carbonium carbon to the acid radical, which is represented by a straight bond in the colourless salts and by a wavy or ' carbonium valency' ..."

4. Methods and Styles in the Development of Chemistry by Joseph Stewart Fruton (2002)
"Forty years later, George Olah succeeded in preparing the first stable aliphatic carbonium compound. Meerwein also showed that what came to be called the ..."

5. Theories of Organic Chemistry by Ferdinand August Karl Henrich (1922)
"... considers that both the carbonium and the quinone-carbonium hypotheses are inadequate to account for the various phenomena of halo chromism. ..."

6. The Electronic Conception of Valence and the Constitution of Benzene by Harry Shipley Fry (1921)
"He states : " It was thus definitely established that there are ' carbonium ' salts in the true sense of the definition applied to salts. ..."

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