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What does catechol mean?

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Noun
  1. (organic chemistry) The biologically important diphenol ortho-dihydroxy benzene; isomeric with hydroquinone and resorcinol.
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Of these the catechins are the most typical, and have been considered as the parent substances of the catechol tans.
The industrial uses of catechol do not result in exposure to the general population.
Similarly, the peroxidase activity was assayed from the oxidation of catechol by H 2 O 2 in presence of the extract.
Like all catechol tans, the resulting leather darkens on exposure to sunlight.
So the problem was how to change this catechol without affecting the drug's ability to interact at the receptor.
Because of the tanning effect of catechol on emulsion gelatine, it has many of the properties of pyrogallol, including high acutance and low fog.

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