a colourless or yellowish flammable poisonous pungent liquid used in the manufacture of resins and pharmaceuticals. Formula: CH2:CHCHO
Word origin
C19: from Latin ācer sharp + olēre to smell + -in
Examples of 'propenal' in a sentence
propenal
The main ones were catechol, hydroquinone, and 3-phenyl-2-propenal, in this order.
E. B. Azevedo, A. R. Tôrres, F. R. Aquino Neto, M. Dezotti 2009, 'TiO2-Photocatalyzed degradation of phenol in saline media in an annular reactor: hydrodynamics,lumped kinetics, intermediates, and acute toxicity', Brazilian Journal of Chemical Engineeringhttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-66322009000100008. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The propenal group assumes an extended conformation.
A. Subbiahpandi, P. Ramesh, Ramaiyan Manikannan, S. Muthusubramanian, M. N. Ponnuswamy 2008, '(E)-3-(4-Methylphenyl)-3-[3-(4-methylphenyl)-1H-pyrazol-1-yl]-2-propenal', Acta Crystallographica Section Ehttp://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S1600536808034697. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)