Syringaldehyde
Encyclopedia
Syringaldehyde is a naturally occurring aromatic
aldehyde
soluble in alcohol
. Some species of insects use syringaldehyde in their chemical communication systems.
Refractive index of syringaldehyde is 1.53.
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Aromaticity
In organic chemistry, Aromaticity is a chemical property in which a conjugated ring of unsaturated bonds, lone pairs, or empty orbitals exhibit a stabilization stronger than would be expected by the stabilization of conjugation alone. The earliest use of the term was in an article by August...
aldehyde
Aldehyde
An aldehyde is an organic compound containing a formyl group. This functional group, with the structure R-CHO, consists of a carbonyl center bonded to hydrogen and an R group....
soluble in alcohol
Alcohol
In chemistry, an alcohol is an organic compound in which the hydroxy functional group is bound to a carbon atom. In particular, this carbon center should be saturated, having single bonds to three other atoms....
. Some species of insects use syringaldehyde in their chemical communication systems.
Refractive index of syringaldehyde is 1.53.
Preparation
This compound may be prepared by the Duff reactionDuff reaction
The Duff reaction or hexamine aromatic formylation is a formylation reaction used in organic chemistry for the synthesis of benzaldehydes with hexamine as the formyl carbon source...
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