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Definition of Catechol
1. Noun. (organic compound) The biologically important diphenol ortho-dihydroxy benzene; isomeric with hydroquinone and resorcinol. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Catechol
1. a chemical used in photography [n -S]
Medical Definition of Catechol
1. A term loosely used for catechin, which contains a pyrocatechol moiety, and as the root of catecholamines, which are pyrocatechol derivatives. Synonym: pyrocatechol. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Catechol
Literary usage of Catechol
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"Alkyl acetyl catechol alkyl ethers, used in forms glittering orange-coloured
crystals which respectively (Nencki, Ber. 1894, 27, 1969). ..."
2. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"catechol is prepared by fusing sodium O-benzene disulphonate (10 parts) with ...
catechol is also prepared by heating catechol disulphonic acid or the ..."
3. Technical Methods of Chemical Analysis by Georg Lunge (1914)
"An aqueous solution of catechol gives a green coloration with ferric chloride
... Silver nitrate is reduced by catechol in the cold, but Fehling solution is ..."
4. The Chemistry of Synthetic Drugs by Percy May (1918)
"(b) Derivatives of ethyl-catechol. (6) Amino-ethyl-catechol, ... (c) Derivatives
of ethanol-catechol (secondary alcohols). (11) Amino-ethanol-catechol ..."
5. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1910)
"The reverse action is employed for producing guaiacol from catechol, which is
now made on a ... catechol forms short, square prisms or thin, pearly plates, ..."
6. The Chemical Synthesis of Vital Products and the Interrelations Between by Raphael Meldola (1904)
"catechol phonic acid fused with alkali (ll'ul. 643 ; Degener, Journ. pr. Ch.
[2] 2O, 308). catechol is among the products of the fusion of phenol with ..."
7. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer (1887)
"... OR catechol. 987 Reinsch first obtained this body by the dry distillation of
catechin,2 and it was further examined by Zwenger, ..."
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