Meanings
adjectivefuroid (not comparable)
- not comparablechemistryHaving a heterocyclic form with a ring of four carbon atoms, two double bonds and an oxygen atom.
[…] its striking optical properties […] indicate that it is not of the furoid type […]
1926, Chemical Abstracts, volume 20, page 1701 more example
By warming with pyridine, H. H. Schlubach1 was able to force the equilibrium between the pyroid and furoid modification of galactose so far toward the furoid form, that the β-pentacetylgalactofuranose was prepared in practical quantities.
1943, Ole Gisvold, Charles Herbert Rogers, The Chemistry of Plant Constituents, page 79
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