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ISOXAZOLES , monazole chemical compounds corresponding to See also:

FURFURANE, (3r FURANE, C4H40, a colourless liquid boiling at 32° C., found in the distillation products of pine wood. It was first synthetically prepared by H. Limpricht (Ann., 1873, 165, p. 281)

furfurane, in which the -CH See also:

GROUP

group adjacent to the See also:

OXYGEN (symbol 0, atomic weight 16)

oxygen See also:

ATOM (Gr. &rows, indivisible, from a- privative, and TE,aPfw, to cut)

atom is replaced by a See also:

NITROGEN [symbol N., atomic weight 14.01, 0=16]

nitrogen atom, and therefore they contain H C = N the See also:

RING (O.E. hring; a word common to Teutonic languages; and probably cognate with the Lat. circus, Gr. KtpKOS or KpLKOS, Skt'. chakra, wheel, circle, cf. also " harangue "); in art, a band of circular shape of varying sizes, made of any material and used f

ring See also:

SYSTEM

system >O• They may be prepared HC =CH by the elimination of See also:

WATER

water from the monoximes of 0-See also:

DIKETONES

diketones, 0-ketone See also:

ALDEHYDES

aldehydes or oxymethylene See also:

KETONES

ketones (L. Claisen, Ber., 1891, 24, p. 3906), the See also:

general reaction proceeding according to the See also:

EQUATION (from Lat. aequatio, aequare, to equalize)

equation R•CO•See also:

CH2•CO•R+See also:

H2N

H2N .OH =2H20+R•C = N HC=C-R W. See also:

DUNSTAN, SAINT (924 or 925-g88)

Dunstan and T. S. Dymond (Jour. Chem. See also:

SOC

Soc., 1891, 49, p. 410) have also prepared isoxazoles by the See also:

ACTION

action of alkalis on nitroparaffins, but have not been able to obtain the See also:

PARENT, SIMON NAPOLEON (1855– )

parent substance. Those isoxazoles in which the See also:

CARBON (symbol C, atomic weight 12)

carbon atom adjacent to nitrogen is substituted are See also:

STABLE

stable compounds, but if this is not the See also:

case, rearrangement of the See also:

MOLECULE (from mod. Lat. molecula, the diminutive of moles, a mass)

molecule takes See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place and nitriles are formed. The isoxazoles are feebly basic. The isoxazolones are the keto derivatives of the as yet unknown 'dihydroisoxazole, and are compounds of strongly See also:

ACID (from the Lat. root ac-, sharp; acere, to be sour)

acid nature, decomposing the See also:

CARBONATES

carbonates of the alkaline See also:

earth metals and forming salts with metals and with See also:

AMMONIA (NH3)

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