azo compound


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azo compound

[′ā·zō ‚käm‚pau̇nd]
(organic chemistry)
A compound having two organic groups separated by an azo group (‒N=N‒).
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Sulfur dyes are often made of azo compounds, sulfide structures, or anthraquinones, and they have several -C=O, -NH-, and aromatic groups.
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New quantitative structure-activity relationship models improve predictability of Ames mutagenicity for aromatic azo compounds. Toxicol Sci 153, 316-326.
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The most common artificial food dyes, the azo dyes, contain aromatic azo compounds such as tartrazine and are widely used.
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Azo compounds are formed from arenediazonium ions conjugated through an azo linkage to highly reactive aromatic hydrocarbon compounds containing two aromatic rings, which are responsible for their intense colours (Solomon, 1996).
Antioxidant and Modulatory Effect of Melatonin on Hepatotoxicity and Oxidative Stress Induced by Orange Yellow S in Male Rats
nCore modified azo compounds reportedly permit improved control of gas generation.
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Only approved food colors can be used and others, such as some azo compounds (otherwise known as "Sudan dyes"), are banned because of their potential carcinogenicity.
Passed with flying colors: CPE, LCMS detect azo colors in foodstuffs: coupling LCMS with cloud-point extraction allows the detection of both permitted and banned azo colors in various types of food matrices
can bring about the reduction of azo compounds. Ogawa et al studied about the reduction of azo compounds and found that sodium sulphite reduces them to hydrazo derivatives and then gradually to amines, whereas Sn[Cl.sub.2] reduces azo compounds directly to amines [10].
A kinetic and mechanistic study on the reduction of dithiazone by stannous chloride in micellar system

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