durylic
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]durylic (not comparable)
- (chemistry) Of or pertaining to durene.
- 1886, Henry Watts, George Fownes, Sir William Augustus Tilden, Watts Manual of Chemistry, page 567:
- formed from durene and durylic acid by prolonged boiling with dilute nitric acid, crystallises in long transparent prisms, and sublimes at a high temperature.
- 1912, William Hobson Mills, “The Preparation of Durylic and Pyromellitic Acids”, in The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science[1], volume 106, page 287:
- The process consists in the transformation of the ketone by sodium hypobromite into durylic acid, and the subsequent oxidation of the latter with potassium permanganate.