Definition of Five-membered

1. Adjective. Of a chemical compound having a ring with five members.

Exact synonyms: 5-membered
Similar to: Membered

Lexicographical Neighbors of Five-membered

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five-finger discount
five-finger discounts
five-finger exercise
five-finger exercises
five-fingered maidenhair fern
five-flowered gentian
five-for
five-fors
five-hitter
five-hundredth
five-hundredths
five-leaf
five-leafed
five-leaved
five-membered (current term)
five-nine
five-past
five-point Calvinist
five-point bishop's cap
five-second delay
five-second rule
five-spice powder
five-spot
five-star
five-to
five-tool player
five-tool players
five-twenties
five Ks

Literary usage of Five-membered

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 (1879)
"We can directly approach the problem of the aromaticity of five-electron, five-orbital systems by examining the appearance potentials of five-membered-ring ..."

2. Victor Von Richter's Organic Chemistry; Or, Chemistry of the Carbon by Victor von Richter (1899)
"CH, (l, 298, 305)— are five-membered rings with two O- or S-atoms. This is also the case with the ethylene esters of the carbonic acid group — eg, ..."

3. The Medical student's manual of chemistry by Rudolph August Witthaus (1906)
"... the several carbon atoms are not equal in value, and therefore two dif- ferent monosubstituted deriva- C tives exist for the five membered ^/Hf ?w atom' ..."

4. Chemistry of the Carbon Compounds: Or, Organic Chemistry by Victor von Richter (1891)
"... and boiling above 360° (£t- ric/ile, 22, 781). DERIVATIVES OF NUCLEI CONTAINING NITROGEN. A. Derivatives of five-membered nuclei containing nitrogen. ..."

5. Text-book of Chemistry: Inorganic and Organic, with Toxicology; for Students by Rudolph August Witthaus (1919)
"A.—MONONUCLEATE HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS. FIVE MEMBERED RINGS. ... exist for the five-membered / -y \\ rings containing a single hetero- 0'HC CHp atom, ..."

6. A Compendium of Chemistry by Carl Arnold (1904)
"five-membered COMPOUNDS WITH ONE OTHER ATOM IN THE CARBON RING. These contain the tetrol group, C4H4, which with ~NH~, ~O~, or ~S~ form a closed chain: ..."

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