Definition of Pyrocatechin. Meaning of Pyrocatechin. Synonyms of Pyrocatechin

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Definition of Pyrocatechin

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Oxyphenol Ox`y*phe"nol, n. (Chem.) A phenol, ?????, produced by the distillation of catechin; called also oxyphenic acid, and now pyrocatechin.
Pyrocatechin
Pyrocatechin Pyr`o*cat"e*chin, n. [Pyro- + catechu.] (Chem.) A white crystalline substance, C6H4(OH)2, of the phenol series, found in various plants; -- so called because first obtained by distillation of gum catechu. Called also catechol, oxyphenol. etc.

Meaning of Pyrocatechin from wikipedia

- reporting on their findings, Philosophical Magazine coined the name pyrocatechin. By 1852, Erdmann realized that catechol was benzene with two oxygen...
- some interest in the era of silver-based photography, pyrogallol and pyrocatechin are among the oldest photographic developers. Natural polyphenols have...
- Guaiacol is a methyl ether of pyrocatechin, while creosol is a methyl ether of methyl-pyrocatechin, the next homolog of pyrocatechin. Methyl ethers differ from...
- lead oxide oxidation of dihydrophe****ne, which is prepared by heating pyrocatechin with o-phenylenediamine. oxidation of ortho-aminodiphenylamine with lead...
- (1950). "Pyrocatecase a New Enzyme Catalizing Oxidative Breakdown of Pyrocatechin". J. Biochem. 37 (3): 371–374. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a126205...
- sometimes melodramatic, poses, and printed with radical overexposure in pyrocatechin developer and bleaching-back with ferricyanide. In his more contrived...