Carbinol definition

kärbə-nôl, -nŏl, -nōl
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An alcohol derived from methanol.
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Any alcohol bearing a homologous relation to methanol, as diethyl carbinol.
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(obsolete, organic chemistry, uncountable) The compound methanol.
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(obsolete, organic chemistry, countable) Any substituted methanol.
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Noun

Singular:
carbinol
Plural:
carbinols

Carbinol Sentence Examples

  • Fuming nitric acid gives a paratrinitro substitution derivative which on reduction gives paraleucaniline; the salt of the carbinol formed on oxidizing this substance is the valuable dye rosaniline.

  • Considerable interest is attached to the remarkable series of hydrocarbons obtained by Gomberg (Ber., 1900, 33, p. 3150, et seq.) by acting on triphenylmethane chloride (from triphenylmethane carbinol and phosphorus pentachloride, or from carbon tetrachloride and benzene in the presence of aluminium chloride) and its homologues with zinc, silver or mercury.

  • It is reduced by sodium amalgam to benzhydrol or diphenyl carbinol C 6 H 5 [[Choh C 6 H]] 5; a stronger reducing agent, such as hydriodic acid in the presence of amorphous phosphorus converts it into diphenylmethane (C6H5)2.

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