benzophenoxazinone

noun

A photosensitizer with chemical formula C₁₆H₁₁NO, used in the production of dyes.

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nounbenzophenoxazinone (countable and uncountable, plural benzophenoxazinones)

plural benzophenoxazinones

  1. countableuncountableA photosensitizer with chemical formula C₁₆H₁₁NO, used in the production of dyes.

    A reaction under our preparative conditions with 2,6-xylenol […] afforded, in very small yield, only one benzophenoxazinone, which was red […]

    1965, Chemical Society (Great Britain), Journal of the Chemical Society (part 1, page 481)
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    The benzophenoxazinone derivative for tyramine would give a product with the composition C₁₈H₁₆O₂N₂, in agreement with the analysis obtained on the nitrosonaphthol product by Udenfriend and Cooper […]

    2014, Sidney Udenfriend, Bernard Horecker, Nathan O. Kaplan, Fluorescence Assay in Biology and Medicine, volume 2, page 211
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