noun

• An organic compound whose molecule contains a three-membered ring involving an oxygen atom and two carbon atoms.

  ‘The process produces such key industrial chemicals as ethylene oxide, the simplest epoxide.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The lipid hydroperoxide thus formed will decompose into alkoxy radicals, aldehydes, alkenes, epoxides and alcohols.’
  • ‘Originally epoxides were named as oxides of alkenes.’
  • ‘They are either reduced by glutathione peroxidases to unreactive fatty acid alcohols or they react with metals to produce epoxides, aldehydes, etc.’
  • ‘It was suggested that the formation of the epoxides was due to the reactivity of singlet oxygen with double bonds.’