National Cancer Institute Thesaurus

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Preferred Name

Aromatic Compounds

Synonyms

Aromatic Compounds

Definitions

Historically, the term "aromatic" originally referred to the smell of selected compounds that later were found to contain benzene or fused benzene rings in the structure. In a structural sense, it designates compounds that, in accordance with the theory of Huckel, have a cyclic, delocalized (4n+2) pi-electron system. This includes arenes and their substitution products (e.g., benzene, naphthalene, toluene). The term has been generalized to include aromatic heterocyclic structures, such as thiophene and pyridine, but it is more precise to call compounds of the latter type heteroaromatic.

ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C1915

CHEBI_ID

CHEBI:33655

code

C1915

DEFINITION

Historically, the term "aromatic" originally referred to the smell of selected compounds that later were found to contain benzene or fused benzene rings in the structure. In a structural sense, it designates compounds that, in accordance with the theory of Huckel, have a cyclic, delocalized (4n+2) pi-electron system. This includes arenes and their substitution products (e.g., benzene, naphthalene, toluene). The term has been generalized to include aromatic heterocyclic structures, such as thiophene and pyridine, but it is more precise to call compounds of the latter type heteroaromatic.

FULL_SYN

Aromatic Compounds

label

Aromatic Compounds

Legacy Concept Name

Aromatic_Compounds

Preferred_Name

Aromatic Compounds

prefixIRI

Thesaurus:C1915

Semantic_Type

Organic Chemical

Chemical Viewed Structurally

UMLS_CUI

C1510940

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C1933

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