Definition of Heterocyclic ring

1. Noun. A ring of atoms of more than one kind; especially a ring of carbon atoms containing at least one atom that is not carbon.

Exact synonyms: Heterocycle
Generic synonyms: Closed Chain, Ring
Derivative terms: Heterocyclic

Lexicographical Neighbors of Heterocyclic Ring

heterocomplexes
heteroconjugation
heterocosm
heterocosms
heterocrine
heterocrisis
heterocumulene
heterocumulenes
heterocycle
heterocycles
heterocyclic
heterocyclic compound
heterocyclic compounds
heterocyclic compounds with 4 or more rings
heterocyclic oxides
heterocyclic ring (current term)
heterocyclics
heterocycloalkane
heterocycloalkanes
heterocyclyl
heterocyst
heterocystous
heterocysts
heterocytotropic
heterocytotropic antibody
heterodactyl
heterodactyl foot
heterodactylae
heterodactylous
heterodermic

Literary usage of Heterocyclic ring

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

1. Artificial Dye-stuffs: Their Nature, Manufacture, and Uses by Albert R. J. Ramsey, Hubert Claude Weston (1917)
"Before, however, passing to the consideration of the first of these groups—the azine dyes—it may be explained that a heterocyclic ring is one which, ..."

2. Victor Von Richter's Organic Chemistry ; Or, Chemistry of the Carbon Compounds by Victor von Richter (1900)
"... and are then changed to ortho-substitution products of the carbon ring. Again, e heterocyclic ring shows itself ..."

3. Victor Von Richter's Organic Chemistry; Or, Chemistry of the Carbon by Victor von Richter, Richard Anschütz, Georg Schroeter (1900)
"These condensed nuclei unite, as a rule, the properties of the carbocyclic with those of the heterocyclic ring. When definite names are not assigned them, ..."

4. Victor Von Richter's Organic Chemistry; Or, Chemistry of the Carbon by Victor von Richter, Richard Anschütz, Georg Schroeter (1900)
"These condensed nuclei unite, as a rule, the properties of the carbocyclic with those of the heterocyclic ring. When definite names are not assigned them, ..."

5. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"In these molecules the stereochemistry of the five-membered heterocyclic ring and very likely its aromatic character appear to contribute to the binding ..."

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