Definition of Toluic

1. a. Pertaining to, or designating, one of three metameric acids, CH3.C6H4.CO2H, which are related to toluene and analogous to benzoic acids. They are white crystalline substances, and are called respectively orthotoluic acid, metatoluic acid, and paratoluic acid.

Definition of Toluic

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to a toluic acid or its derivatives ¹

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Definition of Toluic

1. pertaining to any of four isomeric acids derived from toluene [adj]

Medical Definition of Toluic

1. Pertaining to, or designating, one of three metameric acids, CH3.C6H4.CO2H, which are related to toluene and analogous to benzoic acids. They are white crystalline substances, and are called respectively orthotoluic acid, metatoluic acid, and paratoluic acid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Toluic

toluamide
toluamides
toluate
toluates
toluene
toluene-3-monooxygenase
toluene-4-monooxygenase
toluene dioxygenase
toluene ortho-monooxygenase
toluenes
toluenesulfonate
toluenesulfonic acid
toluenesulfonyl
toluenyl
tolug
toluic (current term)
toluic acid
toluid
toluide
toluides
toluidide
toluidides
toluidin
toluidine
toluidine blue
toluidine blue O
toluidines
toluidins
toluids
toluol

Literary usage of Toluic

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

1. A Manual of Elementary Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical by George Fownes (1869)
"toluic acid is precipitated by acids from the solution of its salts as a white ... Distilled with phosphorus pentachloride, it yields toluic chloride, ..."

2. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1869)
"The toluic acid is the purer the weaker the nitric acid, and the moro slowly the distillation is conducted ; stronger acid act« violently, ..."

3. Organic Chemistry by William Henry Perkin, Frederic Stanley Kipping (1895)
"The three (omp) toluic acids, C6H4(CH3)-COOH, may be produced by oxidising the corresponding ... in order to prepare »»-toluic acid, nz-xylyl bromide, ..."

4. Solubilities of Inorganic and Organic Compounds: A Compilation of by Atherton Seidell (1919)
"Meta toluic Acid 0.9801 7.207 Ortho toluic Acid 1.1816 8.683 Para toluic Acid 0.3454 2.540 One liter sat. solution in water contains 0.42 gram p toluic acid ..."

5. The Chemical Synthesis of Vital Products and the Interrelations Between by Raphael Meldola (1904)
"Or m-xylene may be brominated, the product oxidised to 6-brom-m-toluic acid ... Or m-xylene can be directly oxidised to m-toluic acid by dilute nitric acid ..."

6. Experimental Organic Chemistry by James Flack Norris (1915)
"Preparation of Terephthalic Acid from p-toluic Acid (SECTION 476).—Dissolve 5 grams of the toluic acid prepared in experiment 203 in a solution of 3 grams ..."

7. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"Obtained by reducing 3.nitro-a-toluic acid with tin and hydrochloric acid ... Crystallises in colourless needles ; mp 120°. 4-Amino-a-toluic acid ..."

8. Introduction to the Study of Organic Chemistry by Adolf Pinner (1882)
"There is, however, an acid known which is isomeric with the three toluic acids, ... There are hence three toluic acids and three phthalic acids, and, ..."

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