six-membered
Adjective Satellite
Meaning
of a chemical compound having a ring with six members
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Examples
having three carbon and three nitrogen atoms in a six-membered ring
Crystalline fructose adopts a cyclic six-membered structure owing to the stability of its hemiketal and internal hydrogen-bonding.
This reaction occurs due to the enzyme hexokinase, an enzyme that helps phosphorylate many six-membered ring structures.
Four isomers are cyclic, two of them with a pyranose (six-membered) ring, two with a furanose (five-membered) ring.
Here, each atom is bonded tetrahedrally to four others, forming a 3-dimensional network of puckered six-membered rings of atoms.
Phenols main The word phenol is also used to refer to any compound that contains a six-membered aromatic ring, bonded directly to a hydroxyl group (-OH).