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adj. - Of a chemical compound having a ring with 6 participants.

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  • Having three carbon and three nitrogen atoms in a six-membered ring
  • The rigid linear molecules used contain aromatic six-membered rings as well as carbon–carbon triple bonds.
  • Professor Hassel's elegant work on six-membered rings, carried out with ever increasing precision, has laid a solid foundation for a dynamic chemistry in three dimensions.
  • Oslo dealt with inorganic chemistry, but from 1930 onwards his work was concentrated on problems connected with molecular structure, particularly the structure of cyclohexane...
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