durylic acid

English

Noun

durylic acid (usually uncountable, plural durylic acids)

1. An acid derived from durene, C₁₀H₁₂O₂, that forms needlelike crystals.
   • 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.

   • 1951, Ernest Edwin Campaigne, Herschel Gene Grose, The Nitration of 5-methyl-2-thenoic Acid, page 55:

     Durylic acid may give a small amount of nitrotrimethylbenzene when nitrated with strong nitric acid while prehnitenecarboxylic acid forms dinitroprenitene quantitatively with fuming nitric acid and sulfuric acid at 10°.