xenylamine

plural xenylamines

1. countableuncountablechemistryA monoamine isomeric with diphenylamine, obtained as a by-product of aniline manufacture.

   Xenylamine shows less tendency than most other monamines to the formation of substitution-derivatives.

   1868, Henry Watts, A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences, volume 5, page 1055

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   This replacement represents the transition from the xenylamines and fluorenamines to the aminophenanthrenes.

   2016, Joseph C. Arcos, Mary F. Argus, Chemical Induction of Cancer, page 62