Definition of Four-membered

1. Adjective. Of a chemical compound having a ring with four members.

Exact synonyms: 4-membered
Similar to: Membered

Lexicographical Neighbors of Four-membered

four-hundredth
four-in-hand
four-in-hands
four-lane
four-leaf
four-leaf clover
four-leaf clovers
four-leaved
four-legged
four-letter Anglo-Saxon word
four-letter word
four-letter words
four-lined leaf bug
four-lined plant bug
four-master
four-membered (current term)
four-minute man
four-momenta
four-momentum
four-o'clock
four-o'clock family
four-on-the-floor
four-part harmony
four-party
four-peat
four-penny nail
four-ply
four-point Calvinist
four-point Calvinists
four-poster

Literary usage of Four-membered

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

1. Victor Von Richter's Organic Chemistry ; Or, Chemistry of the Carbon Compounds by Victor von Richter (1900)
"four-membered HETEROCYCLIC SUBSTANCES. ... The most important bodies containing four-membered rings with two ..."

2. Victor Von Richter's Organic Chemistry; Or, Chemistry of the Carbon by Victor von Richter, Richard Anschütz, Georg Schroeter (1900)
"I. The most important bodies containing four-membered rings with two adjacent hetero-atoms are the cyclic salts, showing a structure analogous to that ..."

3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"Heterocyclic four-membered systems are treated in similar fashion. ... Part III deals with the synthesis of heterocyclic four- membered ring systems ..."

4. The Medical student's manual of chemistry by Rudolph August Witthaus (1906)
"H2C H->C (b) four-membered compounds, such as trimethylene oxid, ... compounds are much more numerous- and important than the three- and four-membered. ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"This is significantly flatter than the four-membered rings in free dimers of the c/j-ryn-cyclobutyl type—for example, 155° in the uracil dimer (9) and 152° ..."

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