durylic acid

noun

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

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Meanings

noundurylic acid (usually uncountable, plural durylic acids)

plural durylic acids

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

    formed from durene and durylic acid by prolonged boiling with dilute nitric acid, crystallises in long transparent prisms, and sublimes at a high temperature.

    1886, Henry Watts, George Fownes, Sir William Augustus Tilden, Watts Manual of Chemistry, page 567
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    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.

    1912, William Hobson Mills, “The Preparation of Durylic and Pyromellitic Acids”, in The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, volume 106, page 287

    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°.

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