bathophenanthroline
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From batho- + phenanthroline.
Noun
[edit]bathophenanthroline (countable and uncountable, plural bathophenanthrolines)
- (organic chemistry) The heterocycle 4,7-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline, used chiefly as a metal complexing agent
- 2000 March 3, Gerd-Jan ten Brink et al., “Green, Catalytic Oxidation of Alcohols in Water”, in Science[1], volume 287, number 5458, , pages 1636–1639:
- A water-soluble palladium(II) bathophenanthroline complex is a stable recyclable catalyst for the selective aerobic oxidation of a wide range of alcohols to aldehydes, ketones, and carboxylic acids in a biphasic water-alcohol system.