bathophenanthroline

English

Etymology

batho- +‎ phenanthroline

Noun

bathophenanthroline (countable and uncountable, plural bathophenanthrolines)

  1. (organic chemistry) The heterocycle 4,7-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline, used chiefly as a metal complexing agent
    • 2000 March 3, Gerd-Jan ten Brink et al., “Green, Catalytic Oxidation of Alcohols in Water”, in Science‎, volume 287, number 5458, →DOI, pages 1636–1639:
      A water-soluble palladium(II) bathophenanthroline complex is a stable recyclable catalyst for the selective aerobic oxidation of a wide range of alcohols to aldehydes, ketones, and carboxylic acids in a biphasic water-alcohol system.
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