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English
Etymology
From batho- + phenanthroline.
Noun
bathophenanthroline (countable and uncountable, plural bathophenanthrolines)
- (organic chemistry) The heterocycle 4,7-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline, used chiefly as a metal complexing agent
2000 March 3, Gerd-Jan ten Brink et al., “Green, Catalytic Oxidation of Alcohols in Water”, in Science, volume 287, number 5458, →DOI, pages 1636–1639:A water-soluble palladium(II) bathophenanthroline complex is a stable recyclable catalyst for the selective aerobic oxidation of a wide range of alcohols to aldehydes, ketones, and carboxylic acids in a biphasic water-alcohol system.