Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to organic compounds having both aliphatic and cyclic characteristics or structures.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In chem., a term introduced by Bamberger to designate a compound containing a ring of carbon atoms but at the same time having many of the properties of the aliphatic or open-chain compounds.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Org. Chem.) pertaining to compounds that have a ring in the structure, but are not aromatic, as cyclohexane or cyclohexene. Compare
aliphatic andaromatic .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective organic chemistry Of a
class oforganic compounds having bothaliphatic (chain) andcyclic (ring)structure .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Göttingen, who, like von Baeyer, contributed to alicyclic chemistry, studying not only terpenes but also camphor and other components of ethereal oils.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry 2010
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University, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "in recognition of his services to organic chemistry and the chemical industry by his pioneer work in the field of alicyclic compounds."
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Wallach received the Nobel Prize in 1910 for his work on alicyclic compounds.
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University, for the services which he has rendered in the development of organic chemistry and the chemical industry by his pioneering work in the field of alicyclic compounds.
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Sciences has awarded to you this year's Nobel Prize for Chemistry in recognition of the momentous services you rendered in the development of organic chemistry and the chemical industry by your pioneering work in the field of alicyclic compounds.
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Following these discoveries Ruzicka and his co-workers were able to prepare the whole series of alicyclic ketones with 9 to over 30 carbon atoms as ring members, compounds that had previously been believed to be incapable to existence.
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For this reason the alicyclic series has, since the middle of the eighties, assumed such size and importance as to make it the equal of the other three main series within organic chemistry.
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Organic chemistry, during the decade that followed, was characterized by the study of the so-called alicyclic compounds, among which the terpenes and the closely related types of camphor with their derivatives played the most important part.
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They thus opened a new chapter of alicyclic chemistry, which was then as unfamiliar to Ruzicka as it was to Staudinger.
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What is difference between alicyclic unsaturated hydrocarbons and aromatic non-benzenoid compounds? en Español
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