1840 *Phloretic, *Phloretin . [ see phlorizin]
1866–77 Watts Dict. Chem. IV. 489Phloretic acid produced, together with phloroglucin, by the action of caustic potash on phloretin. [ is]
1857 Miller Elem. Chem. III. 511Phloridzin, when boiled with weak acids, is decomposed into grape sugar, and a resinous matter termed phloretin. Phloretin crystallizes in microscopic almost insoluble plates.
1881 Watts Dict. Chem. VIII. 1572*Phloroglucic Anhydride, or *Phloroglucide, C12H10O5..is obtained: 1. by the action of heat on phloroglucol.
1866–77 Watts Dict. Chem. IV. 495*Phloroglucin is sweeter than common sugar,..permanent in the air at ordinary temperatures.
1893 Syd. Soc. Lex. ,Phloroglucin..is found widely distributed in nature, mainly in combination as the complex body phloroglucide, but partly also in the free state.
1881 Watts Dict. Chem. VIII. 1570*Phloroglucol, C6H6O3..Phloroglucin.
1895 Naturalist 24 A red-brown phlobaphene which fused with potass gives protocatechnic acid and phloroglucol.
1879 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. XXXVI. 633By this synthesis, the aromatic nature of *phloroglucinol is definitely established.
1949 E. Chain in H. W. Florey et al. Antibiotics II. xix. 758They also tested a large number of chemicals for their ability to stimulate the production of penicillin... Among the ineffective substances were sodium azide,..phloroglucinol, naphthol, . [ etc.]
1963 . [ see filicic a.]
1872 Watts Dict. Chem. VI. 928*Phlorol or phloryl alcohol.. is one of the constituents of beech-tar creosote.
1873 ― Fownes'Chem. (ed. 11) 798Phlorol, an oily liquid obtained by the dry distillation of the barium salt of phloretic or oxethyl⁓benzoic acid.
1881 ― Dict. Chem. VIII. 1572Phlorol... This phenol, first noticed as a constituent of beech-tar creosote.
1866–77 Ibid. IV. 496*Phlorone. C8H8O2.
1872 Ibid. VI. 928Phlorone crystallises in golden-yellow oblique rhombic prisms, which when heated give off a pungent odour.
phloro-
combining form
see phlor-
see phlor-