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Hemiacetal

Definition: Hemiacetal

Hemiacetal

Noun

1. An organic compound usually formed as an intermediate product in the preparation of acetals from aldehydes or ketones.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



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Crosswords: Hemiacetal

English words defined with "hemiacetal": aldoseketose. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Hemiacetal

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A hemiacetal is a functional group in the form of

where R and R' are any carbon backbones.

A hemiacetal can react with an alcohol under very acidic conditions to form a acetal, can hydrolyse to form an aldehyde and an alcohol.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hemiacetal."

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Derivations: Hemiacetal

Derivations

Words beginning with "hemiacetal": hemiacetals. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Hemiacetal

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-h-i-l-m-t"

-1 letter: malachite.

-2 letters: calamite, emaciate, haematic, leachate, thalamic.

-3 letters: calathi, camelia, chaetae, chaetal, chelate, climate, ethical, hematal, hematic, machete, maleate, metical, thalami.

-4 letters: acetal, aecial, althea, atelic, calami, camail, camlet, chaeta, chalet, chelae, chimla, chital, emetic, haemal, haemic, halite, hamate, hamlet, heliac, helmet, hiatal, hiemal, lactam, lamiae, lichee, malate, malice, maltha, mealie, meatal, tamale, techie, thecae, thecal.

-5 letters: aceta, aecia, aitch, alate, almah, almeh, amice, camel, cheat, chela, chiel, chile, chime, claim, cleat, clime, eclat, elate, elect, elemi, elite, email, ethic, halma, hamal, hemal, hemic, ileac, laich, laith, lamia, latch, lathe, lathi, leach, leech, letch, lethe, licht, lithe, mache, macle, maile, malic, match, melic, metal, miche, milch, tache, tamal, teach, telae, telia, telic, theca, theme, tical.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-e-h-i-l-m-t"
 

+1 letter: hemiacetals, metaethical.

 

+2 letters: metathetical.

 

+3 letters: catecholamine.

 

+4 letters: catecholamines, empathetically, metathetically.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Hemiacetal


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 65 6D 69 61 63 65 74 61 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0065 006D 0069 0061 0063 0065 0074 0061 006C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

42717975676971866778

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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