Definition of Dehydrogenation

1. n. The act or process of freeing from hydrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of hydrogen.

Definition of Dehydrogenation

1. Noun. (chemistry) Any reaction or process in which hydrogen is removed from a substance, especially the production of unsaturated organic compounds from saturated ones ¹

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Definition of Dehydrogenation

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Medical Definition of Dehydrogenation

1. The removal of one or more hydrogen ions or protons from a molecule. This can be done by a dehydrogenase enzyme. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dehydrogenation

dehydrocyclization
dehydrocyclizations
dehydrodolichol reductase
dehydrodolichyl diphosphate synthetase
dehydroemetine
dehydroepiandrosterone
dehydroepiandrosterone 17-ketoreductase
dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate
dehydroepiandrosterone sulfotransferase
dehydrogenase
dehydrogenases
dehydrogenate
dehydrogenated
dehydrogenates
dehydrogenating
dehydrogenation (current term)
dehydrogenations
dehydrogenative
dehydrogenatively
dehydrogenise
dehydrogenised
dehydrogenises
dehydrogenising
dehydrogenize
dehydrogenized
dehydrogenizes
dehydrogenizing
dehydrohalogenation
dehydrohalogenations
dehydroisoandrosterone

Literary usage of Dehydrogenation

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

1. Catalytic Hydrogenation and Reduction by Edward Bradford Maxted (1919)
"CHAPTER VII dehydrogenation THE simple dehydrogenation of straight carbon- hydrogen chains has up to the present not been realised. ..."

2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"Mixtures of 5 and 1 from initial column chromatog- raphy of the dehydrogenation reaction were assayed quantitatively by nmr and subjected to catalytic ..."

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