Sentence examples for characteristic reactions from inspiring English sources

Each type of acid derivative has a set of characteristic reactions that qualifies it as a unique functional group, but all acid derivatives can be readily converted to a carboxylic acid under appropriate reaction conditions.

Alcohols undergo characteristic reactions such as esterification.

Alkaloids were marked by characteristic reactions (tested with different reagents).

Thus benzyl alcohol may be classified either as an alcohol, or as an aromatic benzene derivative, since it participates in the characteristic reactions of the latter, such as electrophilic aromatic substitution or hydrogenation of the benzene ring.

Fullerene is stable and its spherical structure produces an angle strain which allows it to undergo characteristic reactions of addition to double bonds (hybridization which turns from sp2 to sp3).

Species demarcation of some Bacillus isolates is quite complex, since many isolates don't provide characteristic reactions that are considered typical of that species [62], [63].

The most important characteristic reaction of quinones is reduction to the corresponding dihydroxy form.

The characteristic reaction of alkanes is substitution; that of alkenes and alkynes is addition to the double or triple bond.

A characteristic reaction of the amylose component of starch is the formation with iodine of a complex compound with a characteristic blue colour.

In some cases, they undergo reactions similar to those of simple aromatic hydrocarbons, such as Friedel-Crafts substitution, which is a characteristic reaction of benzene, C6H6.

The characteristic reaction of covalent amides is hydrolysis (a chemical reaction with water), by which they are converted to acids and amines; this reaction ordinarily is slow unless it is catalyzed by a strong acid, an alkali, or an enzyme.