Alkyl is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 27 anagrams from letters in alkyl (aklly).
1880-85; German, equivalent to Alk(ohol) alcohol + -yl -yl
The influence of position of an alkyl in the aromatic bodies is well shown in ortho-, para- and meta-derivatives.
By heating with phosphorus pentachloride an alkyl group is eliminated and a chlorcarbonic ester formed.
For instance, an alkyl may be substituted for the hydroxyl hydrogen in an alcohol molecule, when an ether results.
All the salts are explosive and readily interact with the alkyl iodides.
The glyoxalines are basic in character, and the imide hydrogen is replaceable by metals and alkyl groups.
The alkyl derivatives may be obtained by heating phenol with one molecular proportion of a caustic alkali and of an alkyl iodide.
We may also notice that thio-ethers combine with alkyl iodides to form sulphine or sulphonium compounds, R3SI.
Hydrogen may be substituted in these chains by alkyl or aromatic groups.
The potassium salt reacts with the alkyl iodides to give N-substituted alkyl derivatives.
The hydrogen of the hydroxyl group in phenol can be replaced by metals, by alkyl groups and by acid radicals.