hydroxy-
combining form
(in chemical compounds) indicating the presence of one or more hydroxyl groups or ions
Origin
from hydro- + oxy(gen)hydroxy-
1
a combining form used in the names of chemical compounds in which the hydroxyl group is present:
hydroxyketone.
Related Words
- butylated hydroxyanisole
- butylated hydroxytoluene
- hydroxyacetic acid
- hydroxyapatite
- hydroxybenzene
- hydroxybutyric acid
hydroxy-a prefix used to denote a chemical substance which contains a hydroxyl (-OH) group, as hydroxybenzene.
Also, hydroxi-.
hydroxy-
combining form
- Chemistry representing
HYDROXYL orHYDROXIDE 【化】表示“羟基”, “氢氧化物”： -
hydroxyapatite.
1872 Watts Dict. Chem. Suppl. VI. 722Hydroxybenzyluric acid, C16H21NO5..An acid produced by oxidation of hydrobenzyluric acid, when an alkaline solution of the latter is exposed to the air.
Ibid. ,Hydroxethylene-triethylammonium... The chloride..is obtained by heating hydroxychloride of ethylene with triethylamine.
1887 Athenæum 11 June 770/1 The outer coating of walnuts contains a crystalline substance termed nucin or juglone, which has been found to be a hydroxynaphthaquinone.
1888 I. Remsen Organ.Chem. 169A hydroxy-succinic acid.
1896 Ibid. x. 155Hydroxy-acids..may be regarded either as monobasic acids into which one alcoholic hydroxyl has been introduced, or as monacid alcohols into which one carboxyl has been introduced.
1948 Arch. Otolaryngol. XLVIII. 659The product used..provides..800 units of penicillin per cubic centimeter in a 1 per cent solution of hydroxyamphetamine hydrobromide (paredrine hydrobromide).
1876 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. ii. 85 (heading)A new hydroxybenzoic acid.
1888 Bloxam Chem. (ed. 6) 524Salicylic or hydroxybenzoic acid, C6H4.HO.CO2H, is prepared artificially by combining phenol with soda, and heating the product in carbonic acid gas.
1958 Packer & Vaughan Mod. ApproachOrg. Chem. xxiv. 796The most important hydroxy-benzoic acid is salicylic acid (o-hydroxybenzoic acid).
1879 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. XXXVI. 615 (heading)Hydroxybutyric acid, C4H8O3.
1970 W. S. Hoffman Biochem. Clin. Med. (ed. 4) iv. 149The so-called ketone bodies, namely, acetoacetic acid, β-hydroxybutyric acid, and acetone..are formed during the oxidation of fatty acids.
1929 Chem. Abstr. XXIII. 95Pure rhodinal..was prepd. by vacuum distn. of hydroxycitronellal.
1951 P. Z. Bedoukian Perfumery Synthetics & Isolates 231Hydroxycitronellal has not been found in nature and is entirely a development of the laboratory.
1951 Jrnl. Clin. Endocrinol. & Metabolism XI. 1029Treatment with adrenocorticotropic hormone led to an increase in concentration of the 17-hydroxycorticosteroids.
1968 Brit. Med. Bull. XXIV. 225/2Simple steroid screening tests such as single determinations of 17-hydroxycorticosteroid in plasma or in collections of urine.
1943 Reichstein & Shoppee in Vitamins & Hormones I. 35617-Hydroxycorticosterone... Isolated and described as ‘Substance M’ by Reichstein (55) and by Kendall et al. (54), who called it ‘Compound F’.
1961 Lancet 7 Oct. 796/1 Further reports on the urinary levels of 17-hydroxycorticosterone..of such patients will be awaited with interest.
1925 Chem. Abstr. XIX. 2347Hydroxylysine does not occur in casein or ovalbumin.
1969 New Scientist 3 July 11/1 One excreted excessive quantities of hydroxylysine. [ family]
1937 Chem. Abstr. XXXI. 9888/3 (Index),Hydroxy⁓methyl group, detn. in resol.
1964 G. H. Haggis et al.Introd. MolecularBiol. ix. 218In 5-hydroxy-methyl⁓cytosine, a hydroxy-methyl ({b1}CH2OH) group replaces the hydrogen at position 5.
1948 H. Wynberg tr. Theilheimer's Synthetic MethodsOrg. Chem. I. 147 (heading)Hydroxymethylation of phenols with formaldehyde.
1968 H. V. Aposhian in H. Fraenkel-Conrat Molecular BasisVirol. v. 504Shortly after infection with a T-even phage, a new enzyme is produced which catalyzes the hydroxymethylation of dCMP at the 5 carbon atom.
1952 Wyatt & Cohen in Nature 20 Dec. 1072/1We have now resolved this discrepancy by isolation from T-even bacteriophages of a new pyrimidine base, identified as 5-hydroxymethylcytosine.
1968 H. V. Aposhian in H. Fraenkel-Conrat Molecular BasisVirol. v. 499The unusual base, 5-hydroxymethylcytosine, is not found in uninfected E. coli.
1905 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. LXXXVIII. i. 545 (heading)Synthesis of hydroxypyrrolidinecarboxylic acids (hydroxyprolines).
1965 A. Meister Biochem. Amino Acids (ed. 2) I. i. 873-Hydroxyproline was first obtained from cattle Achilles' tendon collagen.
1967 New Scientist 24 Aug. 375/1 In fish from cold water the precise proportion of the imino-acid hydroxyproline in the important protein collagen..was lower than that in fish from warm water.
1949 Jrnl. Biol. Chem. CLXXX. 968Tentatively, then, the constitutional formula of 5-hydroxytryptamine..may be assigned to this vasoconstrictor principle.
1956 Nature 18 Feb. 332/2 The pharmacologically active substance 5-hydroxytryptamine is known to be liberated from platelets during clotting.
1956 Chem. Abstr. L. 5630 (heading)A new synthesis of bufotenine and related hydroxytryptamines.
Ibid. 56316-Hydroxytryptamine.
ORIGIN: from hydroxyl
hydroxy-
combining form
or hydrox-
Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary, from hydroxyl, from English
: hydroxyl : containing hydroxyl especially in place of hydrogen — in names of chemical compounds or radicals
< hydroxyalkyl >
< hydroxamic acids >
— compare hydroxo-
or hydrox-
< hydroxyalkyl >
< hydroxamic acids >
— compare hydroxo-
hydroxy-
Prefix
- chemistry having, or derived from a hydroxyl radical