Definition of Pyrone

1. n. An unsaturated cyclic compound, C5H4O2, of which two varieties are known, α and γ. γ-pyrone is the parent substance of several natural yellow dyestuffs.

Definition of Pyrone

1. Noun. (organic compound) Any of a class of cyclic chemical compounds that contain an unsaturated six-membered ring with one oxygen atom and a ketone functional group. ¹

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Definition of Pyrone

1. a chemical compound [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyrone

pyrometer
pyrometers
pyrometric
pyrometric cone
pyrometrical
pyrometrically
pyrometries
pyrometry
pyromorphite
pyromorphites
pyromorphous
pyromucate
pyromucates
pyromucic
pyromucic acid
pyrone (current term)
pyrones
pyronine
pyronines
pyroninophilic
pyronomics
pyrope
pyropes
pyrophane
pyrophanite
pyrophanous
pyrophile
pyrophiles
pyrophobia
pyrophobic

Literary usage of Pyrone

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)
"That the isomeric ion derived from 2-pyrone must also arise from loss of the 6 ... The corresponding value for the 2-pyrone-derived cation is 28 ± 3.18 The ..."

2. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1908)
"The Formation ofy-pyrone Compounds from Acetylenic Acids. ... CO. to yield 7-pyrone compounds. Up to the present this reaction has been applied to the ..."

3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1900)
"The important group of yellow vegetable dyes, the chief of "which are chrysin, fisetin, and morin, are derived primarily from a phenyl benzo-y-pyrone— ..."

4. A Text-book of Organic Chemistry by Arnold Frederik. Holleman (1920)
"Heating with hydriodic acid transforms this body into hydroxylamine and methyl iodide, proving that its methyl-group is linked to oxygen. pyrone DERIVATIVES ..."

5. A Text-book of Organic Chemistry by Arnold Frederik Holleman (1920)
"pyrone DERIVATIVES. 238. A number of compounds assumed to contain the group CO HC/^CH are known: they are called pyrone derivatives, and some of them occur ..."

6. A Text-book of Organic Chemistry by Arnold Frederik Holleman (1920)
"pyrone DERIVATIVES. 238. A number of compounds assumed to contain the group ... CH 0 are known: they are called pyrone derivatives, and some of them occur ..."

7. Victor Von Richter's Organic Chemistry; Or, Chemistry of the Carbon by Victor von Richter, Richard Anschütz, Georg Schroeter (1900)
"CH = C(CHS)';>U CU<CH = a-pyrone, ... It melts at 32.5° and boils at 315°- a,a,-Dimethyl pyrone, CjH./yCH,),, results upon heating ..."

8. A Text-book of Organic Chemistry by August Bernthsen (1891)
"consequently the two pyridine residues of which the former is built up are in the /3-position to one another. Appendix : pyrone Group ..."

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