Meaning of furoid | Babel Free

Definitions

Having a heterocyclic form with a ring of four carbon atoms, two double bonds and an oxygen atom.

not-comparable

Examples

“[…] its striking optical properties […] indicate that it is not of the furoid type […]”

“By warming with pyridine, H. H. Schlubach1 was able to force the equilibrium between the pyroid and furoid modification of galactose so far toward the furoid form, that the β-pentacetylgalactofuranose was prepared in practical quantities.”

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