nitroso-
Word Origin
1
a combining form of the nitroso group:
nitrosobenzene.
Also, especially before a vowel, nitros-.
Origin
combining form of Latin nitrōsus full of natron, equivalent to nitr(um) native soda, natron (< Greek nítron soda) + -ōsus -ose1; see -o-
Related Words
- nitrosobenzene
- nitrosourea
nitroso-
combining form
⇨ see nitros-
combining form
⇨ see nitros-
1872 Watts Dict. Chem. Suppl. 874*Nitroso-compounds.
1885 I. Remsen Org. Chem. (1888) 101The product..which is derived from the original substance by the substitution of the group NO for a hydrogen atom, is called a nitroso-compound.
1885 Jrnl. Soc. Dyers & Colourists I. 177/2Tetramethyltolylenediamine seems to give a similar nitroso compound.
1938 C. D. Hurd in H. Gilman Org. Chem. I. vii. 635This tendency for nitroso compounds to change to oximes..is apparent even in the nitroso alcohols or acids.
1971 N. L. Allinger et al.Org. Chem. xxii. 604Aliphatic nitroso compounds which bear at least one hydrogen on the carbon α to the nitroso group are isomerized rapidly and irreversibly by acid or base to oximes.
1890 Anthony's Photogr. Bull. III. 335If..instead of using the azo derivative of Schaeffer's acid, we employ the *nitroso-derivative of the same, the process will be materially cheapened.
1911 I. W. Fay Chem. Coal-Tar Dyes v. 71Naphthol green B. is a *nitroso dye which, unlike the other members of this class, does not require a mordant upon the fabric to be dyed.
1906 J. M. Matthews tr. Alexeyeff'sGen. Princ. Org. Syntheses ii. 58 (heading)Substitution of the *nitroso group.
1864 Reader 8 Oct. 450 Ceruleine acid *nitrosonaphthaline.
1881 Nature XXIV. 293 *Nitroso-substitution compounds of what is apparent azoethane.
1866 Watts Dict. Chem. IV. 116*Nitrososulphates, commonly called Nitrosulphates.
1881 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. XXXIX. 40With a view to producing by this means the *nitroso-sulphonic acids.
1890 Anthony's Photogr. Bull. III. 333A nitroso-sulphonic acid of beta naphthol which..was the first known representative of the class of aromatic nitroso-sulphonic acids.
ORIGIN: from Latin nitrosus nitrous: see -o- .
nitroso-
combining form
see nitros-
see nitros-