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dehydracetic, a. Chem.|diːhaɪdrəˈsiːtɪk| Also deˌhydroaˈcetic. [tr. G. dehydracetsäure dehydracetic acid (A. Geuther 1866, in Jenaische Zeitschr. f. Med. u. Naturwissen. II. 410), f. dehydro- + acetic a.] dehydracetic acid: a colourless, crystalline, cyclic compound, C8H8O4, usu. obtained by heating ethyl acetoacetate.
1872Watts Dict. Chem. Suppl. 543 Dehydracetic acid... An acid said to be produced by the action of hydrochloric or carbonic acid on the sodium salt of ethyl-diacetic acid. 1911Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. XXXIII. 1119 The construction of a satisfactory structural formula for dehydroacetic acid has occupied the attention of chemists ever since its discovery. 1937Thorpe's Dict. Appl. Chem. (ed. 4) I. 63/2 Ethyl acetoacetate loses alcohol on refluxing and forms dehydracetic acid. 1969R. J. W. Byrde in D.C. Torgeson Fungicides II. xii. 549 Dehydroacetic acid has proved of value as a postharvest treatment for fruit. |