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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.
A polymer whose monomer is a methacrylic ester with the general formula H<sub>2</sub>C_C(CH<sub>3</sub>)COOR.
Industry:Chemistry
A diazo dyestuff coupled to diacetoacetic acid anhydride; contains no sulfonic or carboxylic groups; used for printing inks.
Industry:Chemistry
An alcohol whose molecular structure may be written as RCH<sub>2</sub>OH, rather than as R<sub>1</sub>R<sub>2</sub>CHOH (secondary) or R<sub>1</sub>R<sub>2</sub>R<sub>3</sub>COH (tertiary).
Industry:Chemistry
1. A compound containing the R<sub>2</sub>SX<sub>2</sub> grouping, where X is a halide. 2. A salt of sulfinic acid having the general formula R_OH_S:O.
Industry:Chemistry
C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>5</sub>COC<sub>4</sub>H<sub>9</sub> A colorless liquid, boiling at 147_C; used in solvent mixtures. Also known as 3-heptanone.
Industry:Chemistry
The process of producing organoboranes by the addition of a compound with a B-H bond to an unsaturated hydrocarbon; for example, the reaction of diborane ion with a carbonyl compound. Also known as boration.
Industry:Chemistry
C<sub>11</sub>H<sub>17</sub>NO<sub>3</sub> The alkaloid 3,4,5-trimethoxyphenethylamine, found in mescal buttons; produces unusual psychic effects and visual hallucinations.
Industry:Chemistry
A member of a series of saturated aliphatic hydrocarbons having the empirical formula C<sub>n</sub>H<sub>2n+2</sub>. Also known as paraffin; paraffinic hydrocarbon.
Industry:Chemistry
C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>5</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>OH An alcohol that melts at 15.3_C, boils at 205.8_C, and is soluble in water and readily soluble in alcohol and ether; valued for the esters it forms with acetic, benzoic, and sebacic acids and used in the soap, perfume, and flavor industries. Also known as phenylmethanol.
Industry:Chemistry
The cleavage of polymer chains, as in natural rubber as a result of heating.
Industry:Chemistry
