nonane Chem.
(ˈnəʊneɪn)
[f. L. nōn-us ninth + -ane 2 b.]
A hydrocarbon (C9H20), being the ninth of the methane series. Hence nonaˈnoic a. = nonoic a.; nonaˈnoate, the anion, or an ester or salt, of nonanoic acid.
| 1868 Fownes Chem. 551. 1947 K. S. Markley Fatty Acids xv. 407 Armstrong and Hilditch described a method for the disruptive oxidation of methyl oleate in acetone solution which they claim yields 80% to 90% of the theoretical amount of nonanoic acid. 1967 I. L. Finar Org. Chem. (ed. 5) ix. 211 Nonanoic acid is obtained by the oxidation of oleic acid. 1974 Ber. der Bunsen-Gesell. für physikal. Chem. LXXVIII. 874 (heading) X-ray-studies of cholesteric-smectic-pretransitions in mixtures of cholesteryl chloride and cholesteryl nonanoate. |