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McGraw Hill Financial, Inc. is an American publicly traded corporation headquartered in Rockefeller Center in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial, publishing, and business services.
HSCH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>OH Mobile liquid, water-white; soluble in water, benzene, ether, and most organic solvents; boils at 157_C; used as a solvent, chemical intermediate, and reducing agent.
Industry:Chemistry
A reaction in which a nucleophile bonds to a carbon atom in a molecule, displacing a leaving group. Also known as nucleophilic displacement.
Industry:Chemistry
(H<sub>2</sub>CCHCl)x Polymer of vinyl chloride; tasteless, odorless; insoluble in most organic solvents; a member of the family of vinyl resins; used in soft flexible films for food packaging and in molded rigid products such as pipes, fibers, upholstery, and bristles. Abbreviated PVC.
Industry:Chemistry
The prevention or retardation of chemical reaction because of neighboring groups on the same molecule; for example, ortho-substituted aromatic acids are more difficult to esterify than are the meta and para substitutions.
Industry:Chemistry
CH<sub>3</sub>CHCHCO<sub>2</sub>C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>5</sub> A compound with a pungent aroma; boiling point of 143–147_C, soluble in water, soluble in ether; one of two isomeric forms used as an organic intermediate, a solvent for cellulose esters, and as a plasticizer for acrylic resins.
Industry:Chemistry
Unsaturated liquid vegetable oil that has had hydrogen catalytically added so as to convert the oil to a hydrogen-saturated solid.
Industry:Chemistry
The direct replacement of a hydrogen atom by a metal atom in an organic molecule to form a carbon-metal bond.
Industry:Chemistry
CHC(CH<sub>2</sub>)<sub>5</sub>CH<sub>3</sub> Colorless hydrocarbon liquid, boiling at 125_C.
Industry:Chemistry
KC<sub>6</sub>H<sub>11</sub>O<sub>7</sub> An odorless, white crystalline compound with salty taste; soluble in water, insoluble in alcohol and benzene; used in medicine.
Industry:Chemistry
A chemical made from a feedstock derived from sucrose extracted from sugarcane or sugarbeet.
Industry:Chemistry
