a colourless pleasant-smelling liquid used as a solvent and vermicide and in perfume and flavouring. Formula: C6H5OCH3; relative density: 0.996; melting pt: –37.5°C; boiling pt: 155°C
Also called: methoxybenzene
Word origin
C19: from anise + -ole1
Examples of 'methoxybenzene' in a sentence
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The plane of the methoxybenzene ring makes a dihedral angle of 84.92 (6)° with that of the phenolate ring.
Hadariah Bahron, Amalina Mohd Tajuddin, Wan Nazihah Wan Ibrahim, Hoong-Kun Fun, SuchadaChantrapromma 2014, 'Crystal structure of bis{2-[(E)-(4-methoxylbenzyl)iminomethyl]phenolato-κ2N,O1}nickel(II)',Acta Crystallographica Section Ehttp://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S160053681401650X. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Each organic molecule comprises an indazolyl system linked through a sulfonamide group to a methoxybenzene ring.
Latifa Bouissane, Souad Mojahidi, El Mostapha Rakib, Hakima Chicha, Mohamed Saadi,Lahcen El Ammari 2017, '4-Methoxy-N-(1-methyl-1H-indazol-7-yl)benzenesulfonamide hemihydrate', IUCrDatahttp://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S2414314617006459. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The central terephthalate and methoxybenzene rings are approximately perpendicular, making a dihedral angle of 80.31 (5)°.
Sung Kwon Kang, Byung Hee Han 2014, 'Crystal structure of bis(4-allyl-2-methoxyphenyl) terephthalate', Acta Crystallographica Section Ehttp://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S1600536814021229. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)