hydrazone

[hahy-druh-zohn]

noun

1. any of a class of compounds containing the group >C=NNH 2 .

Word History and Origins

Origin of hydrazone¹

First recorded in 1885–90; hydr- ² + az- + (ket)one

Example Sentences

It shows all the usual properties of an aldehyde, forming a bisulphite compound, an oxime and a hydrazone; whilst it can be reduced to the corresponding furfuryl alcohol by means of sodium amalgam, and oxidized to pyromucic acid by means of silver oxide.

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N. Treated with caustic soda solution the hydrazones were dissolved in part: on reprecipitation a hydrazone of unaltered composition was obtained.

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The numbers approximate closely to those obtained by the hydrazone method.

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The main product is a hydroxyfurfural, which was separated as a hydrazone.

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It forms a hydrazone with phenyl hydrazine, and an oxime with hydroxylamine.

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