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McGraw Hill Financial, Inc. is an American publicly traded corporation headquartered in Rockefeller Center in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial, publishing, and business services.
A compound with a molecular structure which contains two or more double bonds in succession.
Industry:Chemistry
C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>4</sub>(CHCH<sub>2</sub>)<sub>2</sub> Polymerizable, water-white liquid used to make rubbers, drying oils, and ion-exchange resins and other polymers; forms include ortho, meta, and para isomers. Also known as vinylstyrene.
Industry:Chemistry
CH<sub>3</sub>CHOHCN A straw-colored liquid boiling at 183_C; soluble in water, insoluble in carbon disulfide and petroleum ether; used as a solvent, and as a chemical intermediate in making esters of lactic acid. Also known as acetaldehyde cyanohydrin.
Industry:Chemistry
A molecule which is capable of combining with like or unlike molecules to form a polymer; it is a repeating structure unit within a polymer. Also known as repeating unit.
Industry:Chemistry
C<sub>8</sub>H<sub>5</sub>NO<sub>2</sub> The product made by heating phthalic anhydride with ammonia; used in Gabriel’s synthesis of primary amines, amino acids, and anthranilic acid (o-aminobenzoic acid).
Industry:Chemistry
A radical ion intermediate formed in the oxidation of a hydroquinone to a quinone.
Industry:Chemistry
Linear, synthetic resins produced by the polymerization of formaldehyde (acetal homopolymers) or of formaldehyde with trioxane (acetal copolymers); hard, tough plastics used as substitutes for metals. Also known as polyacetals.
Industry:Chemistry
CH<sub>2</sub>OH(CHOH)<sub>3</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>OH An alcohol that is derived from arabinose; a sweet, colorless crystalline material present in D and L forms; soluble in water; melts at 103°C. Also known as arabite.
Industry:Chemistry
(CH<sub>3</sub>)<sub>2</sub>As_ A radical found in, for example, cacodylic acid, (CH<sub>3</sub>)<sub>2</sub>AsOOH.
Industry:Chemistry
