pyrocatechol

py·ro·cat·e·chol

a white, crystalline phenol, CH(OH), occurring naturally in plants and now usually produced synthetically: used as an antiseptic, as a photographic developer, etc.

also py·ro·cat′echin

Origin of pyrocatechol

pyro- + catech(u) + -ol

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pyrocatechol

noun

A biologically important phenol, C₆H₆O₂, having two hydroxyl groups attached to the benzene ring, used in dyeing, tanning, photography, and as an antiseptic. Also called catechol .

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Noun

(countable and uncountable, plural pyrocatechols)

(organic chemistry) A dihydric phenol, benzene-1,2-diol, present in some tars.

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More important are Kekule's observations that nitrous acid oxidizes pyrocatechol or [I.2]-dioxybenzene, and protocatechuic acid or [3.4]- dioxybenzoic acid to dioxytartaric acid, (C(OH) 2 COOH) 2 (Ann., 1883, 221, p. 230); and 0.
PYROCATECHIN, or Pyrocatechol, ortho-dioxybenzene, C 6 H 4 (OH) 2, first prepared in 1839 by H.

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