A colourless crystalline heterocyclic compound, C12H9N; m.p. 110°C. The ring structure is similar to that of anthracene, with three fused rings, the centre ring containing a nitrogen hetero atom. Several derivatives of acridine (such as acridine orange) are used as dyes or biological stains.
Acridine
A chemical (see formula) that is capable of causing frameshift mutations in the DNA sequence. Several derivatives of acridine (such as acridine orange) are used as dyes or biological stains.
Acridine
- confinement
- confining pressure
- confirmation, paradoxes of
- confirmation theory
- confirm(of a statistical experiment)
- conflagration
- confluence
- confluent
- confocal conics
- confocal fluorescence microscopy
- confocal microscopy
- conformable
- conformal
- conformal field theory
- conformal invariance
- conformally equivalent
- conformal prediction theory
- conformal transformation
- conformance testing
- conformation
- conformational analysis
- conformational isomer
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