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单词 cyclic compound
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cyclic compound


cyclic compound,

any one of a class of compounds whose molecules contain a number of atoms bonded together to form a closed chain or ring. If all of the atoms that form the ring are carbon, the compound is said to be carbocyclic; if not, the compound is called heterocyclic. Cyclohexane and benzene are homocyclic hydrocarbons; furfural is heterocyclic, as is pyridine. A cyclic compound that behaves chemically like the open-chain aliphatic compounds is said to be alicyclic; cyclohexane is such a compound. Many cyclic compounds exhibit the special properties characteristic of the aromatic compounds.

Cyclic Compound

 

any one of a class of compounds, mainly organic compounds, containing one or more rings (cycles) consisting of three or more atoms.

Five- and six-member rings occur most often because of the ease of their formation and the absence of ring strain. Depending on the nature of the atoms composing the ring, a distinction is made between carbocyclic, or isocyclic, compounds and heterocyclic compounds (seeCARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS and HETERO-CYCLIC COMPOUNDS). In carbocyclic compounds, the rings consist only of carbon atoms, as in for example, alicyclic compounds, such as cyclopropane (I) and cyclopentane (II), and aromatic compounds, such as benzene (III) (seeALICYCLIC COMPOUNDS and AROMATIC COMPOUNDS). In heterocyclic compounds, the rings contain, in addition to carbon atoms, one or more atoms of other elements, called heteroatoms, mainly, oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur; examples of such compounds are ethylene oxide (IV), pyridine (V), and tetrazole (VI). In polycyclic compounds, the rings may be separated from each other, as in stilbene (VII), may be attached by a single bond, as in diphenyl (VIII), may have a single common atom [(IX), seeSPIRAN], or may have two common atoms (fused-ring compounds), as in naphthalene (X) and deca-hydronaphthalene (XI). Catenanes (XII) are a special case of cyclic compounds; their molecules are constructed in the manner of a simple interlinked chain.

Examples of inorganic cyclic compounds are borazole (a boron compound), phosphonitrile chlorides (phosphorus compounds), and cyclosiloxanes (silicon compounds). (See alsoORGANICCHEMISTRY.)

cyclic compound

[′sīk·lik ′käm‚pau̇nd] (organic chemistry) A compound that contains a ring of atoms.

cyclic compound


cy·clic com·pound

any compound in which the constituent atoms, or any part of them, form a ring. Used mainly in organic chemistry where: 1) numerous compounds contain rings of carbon atoms (carbocyclic compounds) or carbon atoms plus one or more atoms of other types (heterocyclic compounds), usually nitrogen, oxygen, or sulfur; 2) where the atoms in the ring are all of the same element (homocyclic or isocyclic compound); 3) where the ring is saturated or contains nonconjugated double bonds (alicyclic compound), the compound is similar in properties to the corresponding acyclic compound (for example, cyclohexane resembles hexane); 4) where the ring contains conjugated double bonds in a closed loop in which there are 4n + 2 (where n is an integer) delocalized π electrons (Hückel rule) (aromatic compound; for example, benzene, pyridine), it is more stable than the corresponding saturated ring and exhibits unusual chemical properties characteristic of itself and not of other types of rings or of acyclic compounds. These aromatic compounds have the ability to sustain an induced ring current. Synonym(s): closed chain compound, ring compound

cy·clic com·pound

(sik'lik kom'pownd) Any compound in which the constituent atoms, or any part of them, form a ring. Used mainly in organic chemistry.
Synonym(s): closed chain compound.
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