2. Adjective. (organic chemistry) Having a single hydroxy group ¹
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Definition of Monohydric
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Monohydric
1. Having but one hydrogen atom in the molecule. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monohydric
Literary usage of Monohydric
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen (1900)
"The monohydric phenols form a homologous series, of which phenol proper, ...
The higher monohydric phenols present a close resemblance to phenol in ..."
2. Victor Von Richter's Organic Chemistry; Or, Chemistry of the Carbon by Victor von Richter, Richard Anschütz, Georg Schroeter (1900)
"(ia) The monohydric phenyl-paraffin alcohols and their oxidation ... Only the
derivatives of monohydric aromatic alcohols, having hydroxyl in their benzene ..."
3. Lecture Notes for Chemical Students by Edward Frankland (1881)
"These alcohols may be divided into three classes : — 1. monohydric normal alcohols
... monohydric ..."
4. Handbook of Modern Chemistry: Inorganic and Organic : for the Use of Students by Charles Meymott Tidy (1878)
"... an oxide of an alcohol radical) as ethylic ether, (C2H5)20. Just, too, as we
have monohydric, dihydric, ... so we have ethers of monohydric, dihydric, ..."
5. A Text-book of Organic Chemistry by Arnold Frederik. Holleman (1920)
"monohydric PHENOLS. 292. The phenols arc compounds derived from the aromatic
hydrocarbons by replacement of one or more of the hydrogen atoms of the nucleus ..."
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