cyclohexane

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cyclohexane (countable and uncountable, plural cyclohexanes)

(organic chemistry) An alicyclic hydrocarbon, C6H12, consisting of a ring of six carbon atoms; a volatile liquid.

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CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 44th ed., p. 2181 Just enough cyclohexane is added to the water/ethanol azeotrope to engage all of the water into the ternary azeotrope. Source: Internet

For example, cyclohexane can exist in a variety of different conformations including a chair conformation and a boat conformation, but, for cyclohexane itself, these can never be separated. Source: Internet

It has: * A rigid pentacyclic structure consisting of a benzene ring (A), two partially unsaturated cyclohexane rings (B and C), a piperidine ring (D) and a tetrahydrofuran ring (E). Source: Internet

Ring closure labels are used to indicate connectivity between non-adjacent atoms in the SMILES string, which for cyclohexane and dioxane can be written as C1CCCCC1 and O1CCOCC1 respectively. Source: Internet

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