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chelirubine

chelirubine noun: a positive organic ion, with chemical formula C₂₁H₁₆NO₅⁺, having six interlinked carbon rings (including three aromatic benzene rings); commonly formed in combination with a negative halide ion, such as chelirubine chloride.

Noun

chelirubine (uncountable)

  1. a positive organic ion, with chemical formula C₂₁H₁₆NO₅⁺, having six interlinked carbon rings (including three aromatic benzene rings); commonly formed in combination with a negative halide ion, such as chelirubine chloride.
    • The biosynthetic investigation of chelirubine (3) and macarpine (4) has not been reported. A proposal for the biogenetic conversion of sanguinarine (1) into chelirubine (3) had been made.1983, Helvetica Chimica Acta, volume 66, number 1, page 478
    • The first breakthrough in the problems of the structures came from a proposal of the structure of chelirubine (18) by Ishii and co-workers who upon thorough inspection of various spectral data revised the previously proposed structures, […]1984, Syntheses of the Benzo[c]phenanthridine Alkaloids

Questions about chelirubine

What does chelirubine mean?
Chelirubine means a positive organic ion, with chemical formula C₂₁H₁₆NO₅⁺, having six interlinked carbon rings (including three aromatic benzene rings); commonly formed in combination with a negative halide ion, such as chelirubine chloride.
What part of speech is chelirubine?
Chelirubine is a noun.

Words near chelirubine in the dictionary

  1. chelifores
  2. cheliform
  3. cheliped
  4. chelipeds
  5. chelipod
  6. chelirubine
  7. chelisochid
  8. chelisochids
  9. chelitis
  10. chelkarite
  11. chell

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