The phrase "a general class of compounds" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing categories or types of chemical substances in scientific or technical contexts.
Example: "In organic chemistry, a general class of compounds known as alcohols is characterized by the presence of a hydroxyl group."
Alternatives: "a broad category of compounds" or "a typical group of compounds."
This general class of compounds is relatively unexplored.
The chemical compounds of neem belonged to a general class of natural products called "triterpenes" or "limonoids".
We consider a general class of purely inhibitory and excitatory inhibitory neuronal networks, with a general class of network architectures, and characterize the complex firing patterns that emerge.
Since the Yeast GEM includes both general classes of compounds (e.g".fatty acid") and specific members of these classes (e.g. "octanoate"), we use non-reversible encapsulating reactions called "isa" reactions to provide pathways from specific to generic compounds (e.g., octanoate "isa" fatty acid).
Psilocybin is a member of the general class of tryptophan-based compounds that originally functioned as antioxidants in earlier life forms before assuming more complex functions in multicellular organisms, including humans.
These distributions belong to a general class called the Cohens class of bilinear TF representation [3].
A limitation of the Yeast 5 GENRE which suggests future opportunities for improving the Yeast Reconstruction is that due to the lack of information about enzyme specificity or the metabolic significance of variation among similar chemical species, the Yeast 5 GENRE uses general classes of chemical compounds rather than the enumeration of many similar compounds.
In some cases the classification of a sequence was ambiguous: sequences were then assigned to the general class of Mobile Genetic Element (MGE) based on a compound judgement of their number of copies and nature of similar sequences as determined by Blastn and Blastx.
