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| Noun | 1. | organic compound - any compound of carbon and another element or a radical aldehyde - any of a class of highly reactive chemical compounds; used in making resins and dyes and organic acids aliphatic compound - organic compound that is an alkane or alkene or alkyne or their derivative alkylbenzene - organic compound that has an alkyl group bound to a benzene ring alkyl halide, haloalkane - organic compound in which halogen atoms have been substituted for hydrogen atoms in an alkane amino acid, aminoalkanoic acid - organic compounds containing an amino group and a carboxylic acid group; "proteins are composed of various proportions of about 20 common amino acids" diamine - any organic compound containing two amino groups enol - an organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom halon - a compound in which the hydrogen atoms of a hydrocarbon have been replaced by bromine and other halogen atoms; very stable; used in fire extinguishers although it is thought to release bromine that depletes the ozone layer peptone - any of various water-soluble compounds that form by hydrolysis in the digestion of proteins to amino acids quaternary ammonium compound - a compound derived from ammonium with hydrogen atoms replaced by organic groups; used as surface-active agents, disinfectants, and in drugs proenzyme, zymogen - any of a group of compounds that are inactive precursors of enzymes and require some change (such as the hydrolysis of a fragment that masks an active enzyme) to become active propylthiouracil - a crystalline compound used as an antithyroid drug in the treatment of goiter ether - any of a class of organic compounds that have two hydrocarbon groups linked by an oxygen atom acetal - any organic compound formed by adding alcohol molecules to aldehyde molecules aldehyde-alcohol, aldol - an oily colorless liquid obtained by the condensation of two molecules of acetaldehyde; contains an alcohol group (-OH) and an aldehyde group (-CHO) alkaloid - natural bases containing nitrogen found in plants amide - any organic compound containing the group -CONH2 rennet - a substance that curdles milk in making cheese and junket azadirachtin - insecticide thiazine - a compound made up of a ring of four carbon atoms and one sulfur atom and one nitrogen atom cacodyl, tetramethyldiarsine - a poisonous oily liquid with a garlicky odor composed of 2 cacodyl groups; undergoes spontaneous combustion in dry air neurochemical - any organic substance that occurs in neural activity acid anhydrides, acyl anhydrides - organic compounds that react with water to form an acid acid halide, acyl halide - organic compounds containing the group -COX where X is a halogen atom chemical compound, compound - (chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight coal-tar creosote, creosote - a dark oily liquid obtained by distillation of coal tar; used as a preservative for wood creosote - a colorless or yellowish oily liquid obtained by distillation of wood tar; used as an antiseptic cyanohydrin - any organic compound in which the cyano radical -CN and the hydroxyl radical -OH are attached to the same carbon atom ester - formed by reaction between an acid and an alcohol with elimination of water glycoside - a group of compounds derived from monosaccharides resin, rosin - any of a class of solid or semisolid viscous substances obtained either as exudations from certain plants or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules halocarbon - one of various compounds of carbon and any of the halogens hemiacetal - an organic compound usually formed as an intermediate product in the preparation of acetals from aldehydes or ketones erythrocytolysin, erythrolysin, haemolysin, hemolysin - any substance that can cause lysis (destruction) of erythrocytes (red blood cells) and the release of their hemoglobin humic substance - an organic residue of decaying organic matter hydrocarbon - an organic compound containing only carbon and hydrogen ketone - any of a class of organic compounds having a carbonyl group linked to a carbon atom in each of two hydrocarbon radicals macromolecule, supermolecule - any very large complex molecule; found only in plants and animals nitrobenzene - a poisonous oily water-soluble liquid used as a solvent and in the manufacture of aniline oxime - any compound containing the group -C=NOH petrochemical - any compound obtained from petroleum or natural gas |
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