hexane Chem.
(ˈhɛkseɪn)
[f. Gr. ἕξ six + -ane.]
The paraffin of the hexacarbon series, C6H14; of this there are five forms. So hexaˈnoic a. = caproic a.; ˈhexanoyl [-oyl], the radical C5H11CO{b1} of hexanoic acid; also called caproyl; hexene (ˈhɛksiːn), the olefine of the hexacarbon series (C6H12), also called hexylene, homologous and polymeric with ethene; it exists in numerous metameric forms; hexine (ˈhɛksaɪn), the hydrocarbon C6H10 of the same series; hexoic acid, C6H12O2, the same as caproic acid; heˈxoylene, one of the isomeric forms of hexine.
| 1877 Watts Fownes' Chem. (ed. 12) II. 48 Normal *Hexane or Dipropyl occurs in the light oils of Boghead and Cannel coal, and abundantly in Pennsylvanian petroleum. 1897 Remson Theoret. Chem. (ed. 5) 208 Five hexanes are possible according to the theory, and all of them are known..Normal hexane is formed when normal propyliodide is heated with sodium. |
| 1926 Chem. Abstr. XX. 4598/1 *Hexanoic acid, see Caproic acid. 1927 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. XLIX. 1828 (heading) Some bromine derivatives of pentanoic and hexanoic acids. |
| 1949 Union Internat. Chim. pure et appl., Compt. Rend. XV. 144 Rule 58.3. The Commission [of nomenclature of organic chemistry]..recommends that the carboxyl carbon be always numbered as 1 whether the name be a Geneva name or a trivial name, but not when it is a ‘carbonyl’ name. Examples of numbering: *hexanoyl, caproyl [etc.]. 1952 Ibid. XVI. 101 Change: ‘Caproyl’ to ‘Hexanoyl replacing caproyl’..[rule] 58.3. 1967 Canad. Jrnl. Chem. XLV. 2600/2 When a cyclohexane solution of hexanoyl azide and acetophenone was irradiated with light of wavelength over 3000 Å, nitrogen was rapidly evolved. |
| 1877 Watts Fownes' Chem. (ed. 12) II. 59 *Hexene or Hexylene, C6H12. Two hydrocarbons of this composition have been obtained, one from secondary, the other from tertiary, hexyl alcohol. Ibid. 177 Hexene Glycols, C6H12(OH)2. |
| Ibid. 64 *Hexines, C6H10. Hexoylene. 1886 Syd. Soc. Lex., Hexine C6H10..a mobile liquid obtained by Berthelot by acting on allyl iodide with sodium..also called Diallyl. |
| 1877 Watts Fownes' Chem. (ed. 12) II. 294 *Hexoic or Caproic acids, C6H12O2..There are eight possible forms of these acids, analogous to the eight pentyl alcohols. |
| 1886 Syd. Soc. Lex., *Hexoylene, C6H10, Caventou's term for the hexine of petroleum oil formed in the preparation of hexylic alcohol. |