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Definition of Guanidines
1. guanidine [n] - See also: guanidine
Medical Definition of Guanidines
1. A family of iminourea derivatives. The parent compound has been isolated from mushrooms, corn germ, rice hulls, mussels, earthworms, and turnip juice. Derivatives may have antiviral and antifungal properties. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Guanidines
Literary usage of Guanidines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Flesh Foods, with Methods for Their Chemical, Microscopical, and by Charles Ainsworth Mitchell (1900)
"... which can be classified under this head have, as yet, been described (Gautier).
guanidines. ... with the constitution of guanidines have been described, ..."
2. Chemistry of the Carbon Compounds: Or, Organic Chemistry by Victor von Richter (1891)
"... guanidines, when heated with CS2, have their imid- group replaced by sulphur (same
as with the amidines, p. 293), with formation of thio-ureas. ..."
3. Chemistry of the Carbon Compounds: Or, Organic Chemistry by Victor von Richter (1891)
"289) The substituted guanidines, resulting from the introduction of alcohol
radicals, are obtained by reactions analogous to those employed in the ..."
4. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1910)
"They should, therefore, according to this theory, react with ammonia in the
presence of an acid; as a matter of fact they do, producing guanidines very ..."
5. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer (1884)
"NH2 guanidines containing two alcohol radicals have, as yet, ... The compound
guanidines resemble guanidine itself in acting as powerful bases. ..."
6. Review of American Chemical Research by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Arthur Amos Noyes, William Albert Noyes (1903)
"Preparation of guanidines. Equal molecules of thiourea and amine are dissolved
in alcohol, the solution heated to boiling on a water-bath, treated with ..."
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