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acetanilide

[‚a·səd′an·ə‚līd]
(organic chemistry)
An odorless compound in the form of white, shining, crystalline leaflets or a white, crystalline powder with a melting point of 114-116°C; soluble in hot water, alcohol, ether, chloroform, acetone, glycerol, and benzene; used as a rubber accelerator, in the manufacture of dyestuffs and intermediates, as a precursor in penicillin manufacture, and as a painkiller.
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We evaluated the linearity of the CM-CRDS method by plotting the measured [sup.12]C[O.sub.2] concentration against the carbon content (0.15-1.07 mg C) of acetanilide standard (Figure 2).
Aspirin, oxalyl chloride, potassium thiocyanate, 2,3-dimethylaniline, 2,4-dimethylaniline, 2,5-dimethylaniline, 2,6-dimethylaniline, 2-toluidine, 2,5-dimethoxyaniline, 3,4-dimethoxyaniline, 3,5-dimethoxyaniline, 4-hydroxyl acetanilide, and 1-bromoalkanes were obtained from Merck.
On stipulated day the animals were slaughtered, their livers taken out and microsomes prepared for the estimation of activities of various membrane bound DME such as cytochrome P450 (CP), cytochrome b5 (CB), cytochrome-c-reductase (CCR), aniline hydroxylase (AH), acetanilide hydroxylase (AAH), benzphetamine demethylase (BD), aminopyrine demethylase (APD), N.N.
Encouraged by the results we under took a study of chemoselective reduction of 4-nitro benzaldehyde, nonomethyl hydrogen phthalate, 4-carbomethoxy acetanilide and imine esters with DMNAB.
In 1947, David Lester and Leon Greenberg discovered that paracetamol (acetaminophen) was a major, active metabolite of acetanilide (Antifebrine) (4).
In 1996, the RLG group integrated its facilities backward to start production of acetanilide, which is used in the production of vinyl sulphone.
Acetanilide oxidation in phenylbutazone-associated hypoplastic anaemia.
All three herbicides have similar soil sorption intensity, but compared to atrazine, the acetanilide herbicides are more water soluble, degrade more rapidly in soils, and are more volatile (Vencill, 2002).
"acetanilide," "antipyrine," "phenacetin," "agranulocytosis," "acetophenetidin"; Kallet and Schlink, 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs, 73.
The agency itself was established by Congress in 1906 after a wave of adulterated or dangerous drugs was exposed in the press, including a "headache powder" containing acetanilide that caused heart attacks.
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