Skip to main content

Medical Subject Headings

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

... > Organic Chemicals > Hydrocarbons > Hydrocarbons, Cyclic > Hydrocarbons, Aromatic > Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons > Anthracenes > Perylene
Polycyclic Compounds > Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons > Anthracenes > Perylene
... > Organic Chemicals > Hydrocarbons > Hydrocarbons, Cyclic > Hydrocarbons, Aromatic > Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons > Phenalenes > Perylene
Polycyclic Compounds > Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons > Phenalenes > Perylene

Preferred term

Perylene  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Peri Dinaphthalene
  • Peri-Dinaphthalene
  • Perilene

Scope note

  • A 20-carbon dibenz(de,kl)anthracene that can be viewed as a naphthalene fused to a phenalene or as dinaphthalene. It is used as fluorescent lipid probe in the cytochemistry of membranes and is a polycyclic hydrocarbon pollutant in soil and water. Derivatives may be carcinogenic.

History note

  • 91(79); was see under BENZANTHRACENES 1979-90

In other languages

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D010569

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Created 5/3/78, last modified 7/25/23