1895 Science 5 July 28/1 This acid when boiled with methyl, ethyl and prophyl [read propyl] alcohols, at different pressures, gives both the methoxy and hydrogen reaction.

1897 Science 23 Apr. 665/2 Bromine was not replaced by the methoxy group.

1910 Pharmaceut. Jrnl. 31 604/1 Prunetin contains a single methoxy group.

1934 C. C. Steele Introd. Plant Biochem. iii. 21 These methoxy and ethoxy derivatives are found in many natural products, e.g. in the anthocyanins.

1969 Times 10 Feb. 10/8 Dr. Shulgin..prepared many derivatives of mescalin, differing from the parent compound in their pattern of methoxy substitution on the phenyl ring.

1988 Q. N. Myrvik & R. S. Weiser Fund. Med. Bacteriol. & Mycol. (ed. 2) vi. 94 Cefotoxin..is technically a cephamycin due to possession of a methoxy group on the β-lactam ring.

2000 Toxicology 144 31 Hydroxy and/or methoxy substitutions at the 3′ and 4′ positions in the flavonoid structures were the major factors involved in conveying selectivity for the different cytochrome P450 enzymes.