Definition of Open chain

1. Noun. A chain of atoms in a molecule whose ends are not joined to form a ring.

Specialized synonyms: Branched Chain, Straight Chain
Generic synonyms: Chain, Chemical Chain
Antonyms: Closed Chain

Lexicographical Neighbors of Open Chain

open and shut
open and shut case
open and shut cases
open ball
open bar
open beta
open biopsy
open bite
open bites
open book
open book decomposition
open book decompositions
open books
open box
open chain (current term)
open chain compound
open circuit
open circuit method
open circulatory system
open cluster
open clusters
open comedo
open compound
open compounds
open content
open cordotomy
open cover
open day

Literary usage of Open chain

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)
"This is in complete accord with the evidence which indicates that the benzene molecule ion exists in an open-chain form at emission voltages well above ..."

2. American Highway Engineers' Handbook by Arthur Horace Blanchard (1919)
"Under certain conditions of temperature and pressure в number of unsaturated open chain hydrocarbon molecules may unite to form a »ingle closed chain ..."

3. American Highway Engineers' Handbook by Arthur Horace Blanchard (1919)
"Under certain conditions of temperature and pressure a number of unsaturated open chain hydrocarbon molecules may unite to form a single closed chain ..."

4. The Chemistry of Plant Life by Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher (1921)
"However, the ordinary aldehyde reactions of the sugars are more clearly indicated by the open-chain formula. Some investigators are inclined to believe that ..."

5. A Textbook of Organic Chemistry by Joseph Scudder Chamberlain (1921)
"Most of these compounds will not be disscussed further as they have been fully treated in connection with the open chain compounds from which they are ..."

6. A French-English Dictionary for Chemists by Austin McDowell Patterson (1921)
"ouverte, open chain. — sans fin, endless chain. Chaînette,/, small chain; (Math.) catenary. Chaînon, m. link (or, broadly, portion) of a chaînon ..."

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