monobromoacetanilide

English

Noun

monobromoacetanilide (uncountable)

1. (chemistry) A derivative of acetanilide that contains one bromine atom in each molecule.
   • 1938, Frederick Maurice Rowe, Two Lectures on the Development of the Chemistry of Commercial Synthetic Dyes (1856-1938), page 69:

     In 1890 Flimm observed that the caustic potash fusion of monobromoacetanilide gave oxindole, from which a little indigotin was obtained by air oxidation, […]

   • 1968, Roy G. Bossert, Wallace Reed Brode, Laboratory Text and Notebook for Organic Chemistry, page 371:

     This monobromoacetanilide can then be hydrolyzed to yield the monobromoaniline.