Definition of Safrol

1. safrole [n -S] - See also: safrole

Lexicographical Neighbors of Safrol

saffronlike
saffrons
saffrony
safing
saframycin
saframycins
safranal
safranin
safranin O
safranine
safranines
safranins
safranophil
safranophile
safrazine
safrol (current term)
safrole
safroles
safrols
safron
safronal
safronals
saft
safter
saftest
sag
sag down
sag off
sagaciate

Literary usage of Safrol

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. New Remedies: An Illustrated Monthly Trade Journal of Materia Medica edited by Horatio Charles Wood, Frederick Albert Castle, Charles Rice (1877)
"They named this substance safrol. This was found to be accompanied by another body, Safren, which turns the plane of polarization to the right, while safrol ..."

2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1914)
"This is equivalent to 632 cc. at o° and 760 mm., whereas 4.63 g. safrol ... The odor is very similar to that of safrol. Since the work upon which this paper ..."

3. Chemistry of the Carbon Compounds: Or, Organic Chemistry by Victor von Richter (1891)
"... \CH,V is obtained from safrol by heating it \O/ / with sodium, or more readily by boiling it with alcoholic soda (Berichte, ..."

4. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer (1889)
"In order to obtain it pure, the fraction of sassafras-oil, which boils between 228° — 235°, is cooled to - 25°, at which temperature the safrol is deposited ..."

5. Chemistry of the Carbon Compounds: Or, Organic Chemistry by Victor von Richter (1891)
"... C6H3(C3H5) ( \CH, J, is obtained from safrol by heating it with sodium, or more readily by boiling it with alcoholic soda ..."

6. Odorographia: A Natural History of Raw Materials and Drugs Used in the by John Charles Sawer (1894)
"In the behaviour of safrol towards reagents ... The discovery of safrol in the oil of the Camphor tree, Cinnamomum camphora, was made by Messrs. ..."

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