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Definition of Polyhydroxy
1. Adjective. (organic chemistry) Having three or more hydroxy functional groups. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Polyhydroxy
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polyhydroxy
Literary usage of Polyhydroxy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organic Agricultural Chemistry (the Chemistry of Plants and Animals): A by Joseph Scudder Chamberlain (1916)
"polyhydroxy Alcohols In our study of the halogen substitution products we ...
The polyhydroxy alcohols are analogous as bases to the polyhydroxy bases of ..."
2. Plant Pigments by Irvin Walter Brandel (1906)
"The polyhydroxy derivatives which contain hydroxy groups connected to at least
two neighboring carbon atoms, yield blue or violet metallic derivatives. ..."
3. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1915)
"polyhydroxy compounds, influence of configuration on condensation ... polyhydroxy
fatty add esters (Grün) P 1096 Polymerization, influence of light on, ..."
4. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1912)
"The method will be illustrated as follows: A polyhydroxy benzoic acid has been
prepared and its ionization constant has been measured. ..."
5. Chemistry of Food and Nutrition by Henry Clapp Sherman (1918)
"On proceeding with the series of polyhydroxy compounds, a rapid striking cure
was obtained with a preparation of 2-, 4-, 6-trihydroxy pyridine, ..."
6. Cellulose: An Outline of the Chemistry of the Structural Elements of Plants by Charles Frederick Cross, Edward John Bevan, Clayton Beadle (1895)
"... and so the chemistry of the vegetable world, which depends in its proximate
relationships upon the properties of polyhydroxy derivatives of the C6 unit, ..."
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