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Definition of Hydroxyl group
1. Noun. The monovalent group -OH in such compounds as bases and some acids and alcohols.
Medical Definition of Hydroxyl group
1. An -OH or alcohol group on a larger molecule. The oxygen is single-bonded to the hydrogen and has one free bond to the rest of the molecule. Molecules with one or more hydroxyl groups are called alcohols. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydroxyl Group
Literary usage of Hydroxyl group
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"Alternatively, it is possible that the hydroxyl group first releases its acidic
proton to the somewhat alkaline silver oxide reagent and that cycliza- tion ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"A consideration of the properties of hydroxylamine, and its various derivatives
and, in particular, the peculiar behavior of the hydroxyl group in such ..."
3. The Practical Methods of Organic Chemistry by Ludwig Gattermann (1914)
"REACTION: THE REPLACEMENT OF AN ALCOHOLIC hydroxyl group BY A HALOGEN I. EXAMPLE:
Ethyl Bromide from Ethyl ..."
4. Investigations of Infra-red Spectra by William Weber Coblentz (1908)
"THE hydroxyl group. During the preparation of the third volume of Kayser's "Handbuch
der Spectroscopie" only the writer's "Preliminary Report on Infra-Red ..."
5. A Text-book of organic chemistry by Arnold Frederick Holleman (1908)
"The carboxyl-group may be modified by the exchange of its oxygen atoms or
hydroxyl-group for other elements or groups. This is the case in the classes of ..."
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