xenylamine

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English

Noun

xenylamine (countable and uncountable, plural xenylamines)

  1. (organic chemistry) A monoamine isomeric with diphenylamine, obtained as a by-product of aniline manufacture.
    • 1868, Henry Watts, A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences, volume 5, page 1055:
      Xenylamine shows less tendency than most other monamines to the formation of substitution-derivatives.
    • 2016, Joseph C. Arcos, Mary F. Argus, Chemical Induction of Cancer, page 62:
      This replacement represents the transition from the xenylamines and fluorenamines to the aminophenanthrenes.