Lexic.us

Definition of Allyl alcohol

1. Noun. An unsaturated primary alcohol present in wood spirit; use to make resins and plasticizers and pharmaceuticals.

Medical Definition of Allyl alcohol

1. CH2==CHCH2OH; 2-propenol;a colourless liquid of pungent odour used in making resins and plasticisers; highly irritating to mucous membranes and readily absorbed, causing depression and coma. Synonym: vinyl carbinol. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Allyl Alcohol

Literary usage of Allyl alcohol

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1. A Manual of Elementary Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical by George Fownes (1869)
"allyl alcohol is a colorless liquid, having a pungent odor and a spirituous ... allyl alcohol is a primary alcohol, similar in all its ordinary reactions to ..."

2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"A reaction mixture containing 10 mmol of phenylmercuric chloride, 10 mmol of cupric chloride, 10 ml of acetonitrile, 1 ml of allyl alcohol, and 10 ml of 0.1 ..."

3. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"1915, 199) the most satisfactory method of preparing allyl alcohol consists in the direct reduction of glycerol with formic acid. ..."

4. A Text-book of Organic Chemistry by Arnold Frederik. Holleman (1920)
"allyl alcohol is a liquid of irritating odour, solidifying at —50°, and boiling at 96-5°, ... allyl alcohol ..."

5. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1863)
"of Allyl, Carbonyl, and Hydrogen, C'H'S'O = S!|H(^,.—When allyl-alcohol is ... allylalcohol ..."

6. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"It is formed by the action of phosphorus tribromide on allyl alcohol, and is prepared by dropping allyl alcohol into a hot solution of potassium bromide in ..."

7. Fownes' Manual of Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical by George Fownes (1878)
"O == C,,H3(OH) allyl alcohol, CjH,0 = C¡IIa(OH). The first, discovered by Berthelot in 1860, is produced by combining ..."

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