thiazoles

Noun

thiazole (plural thiazoles)

1. Any of a class of unsaturated heterocyclic compounds containing a ring of three carbon atoms, a sulphur and a nitrogen atom; especially the simplest one, C₃H₃SN
   • Many heterocyclic bodies prepared synthetically have been manufactured upon a technical scale, because of their coloring and therapeutic properties. This is true of the dyes of [...] the thiazole-group, and also of the important febrifuges, [...]1891, Victor von Richter, translated by Edgar F. Smith, edited by Prof. R. Anschütz, Victor von Richter's Organic Chemistry; or, Chemistry of the Carbon Compounds, 3rd American edition, from the 8th...