Definition of Chlorohydrin

1. Noun. (organic chemistry) Any halohydrin in which the halogen is chlorine. ¹

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Definition of Chlorohydrin

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chlorohydrin

chloroform
chloroformate
chloroformates
chloroformed
chloroformic acid
chloroforming
chloroformism
chloroforms
chlorofucin
chlorogenic
chlorogenic acid
chloroguanide
chloroguanide hydrochloride
chlorohemin
chlorohemin crystals
chlorohydrin (current term)
chlorohydrins
chloroid
chloroleucite
chloroleucites
chloroleukaemia
chlorolipid
chloroma
chloromenite
chloromercuribenzoates
chloromercurinitrophenols
chlorometer
chlorometers
chloromethane
chloromethanes

Literary usage of Chlorohydrin

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 Science (1908)
"The hydrolysis of a-chlorohydrin by water alone is extremely slow ; the value of k - i/'f log Cn/C/ is o-oooio at°. Hydrochloric acid retards the reaction ..."

2. The Chemistry of the Non-benzenoid Hydrocarbons and Their Simple Derivatives by Benjamin Talbott Brooks (1922)
"CHEMISTRY OF THE NON-BENZENOID HYDROCARBONS yields of ethylene chlorohydrin but other unsaturated hydrocarbons that react energetically with chlorine also ..."

3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1910)
"Fourteen grams of freshly distilled anhydrous ethylene chlorohydrin were placed in a bomb tube cooled to —12 to —20° (saturated salt solution and snow). ..."

4. The Electrical Conductivity and Ionization Constants of Organic Compounds: A by Heyward Scudder (1914)
"Ethylene chlorohydrin see Glycol chlorohydrin. Ethylene cyanide. (Succinic nitrile). ... Cond. with HC1, showing change to glycol chlorohydrin; 760. ..."

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