oxazole

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A five-membered heterocycle having three carbon atoms, one oxygen atom, one nitrogen atom and two double bonds; the 1,3- isomer is aromatic

Word forms

oxazole oxazoles

Etymology

From oxi- + -a- + azole.

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