dehydrothiotoluidine

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dehydrothiotoluidine (uncountable)

  1. (organic chemistry) The base C14H12N2S that crystalizes into long yellowish iridescent needles.
    • 1888, “Proceedings of the Chemical Society”, in Chemical Society, volumes 4-6, Great Britain, page 47:
      Dehydrothiotoluidine [] is isolated from the melt by boiling with somewhat diluted chlorhydric acid, precipitating with soda, distilling and crystallising from amyl alcohol.
    • 1889, Society of Dyers and Colourists, Bradford, Eng. (Yorkshire), The Journal (volumes 5-6, page 81)
      If the amount of sulphur be doubled, thiotoluidine is almost absent, the product containing, together with dehydrothiotoluidine, a more highly condensed base []