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Definition of Acetals
1. acetal [n] - See also: acetal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acetals
Literary usage of Acetals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of medical and pharmaceutical chemistry by Elias Hudson Bartley (1909)
"They reduce Fehling's solutions. t/ acetals. The aldehydes when warmed with ...
Such compounds are called acetals. They may also be formed by the slow ..."
2. Text-book of medical and pharmaceutical chemistry by Elias Hudson Bartley (1898)
"acetals. The acetals are formed by the union of alcohol with aldehydes, with the
elimination of water, or by the oxidation of the alcohols, ..."
3. The Medical student's manual of chemistry by Rudolph August Witthaus (1890)
"acetals. These substances may be considered as derived from the aldehydes by the
substitution of two groups OH (R = un alcoholic radical CnH,n + i) f°r the ..."
4. Chemistry of the Carbon Compounds: Or, Organic Chemistry by Victor von Richter (1891)
"On heating the acetals with alcohols, the higher alkyls are displaced by the
lower alkyls ... On shaking or digesting the acetals with hydrochloric acid, ..."
5. Victor Von Richter's Organic Chemistry ; Or, Chemistry of the Carbon Compounds by Victor von Richter (1899)
"The dialkyl ethers are named acetals, from their best-known representative. ...
On heating the acetals with alcohols, the higher alkyls are replaced by the ..."
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