A chemical compound formed when an acid group combines with aniline; used in dyes, pharmaceuticals, and plastics.
From 'aniline' + '-ide', a standard chemistry suffix for compounds. Established in 19th-century chemical nomenclature when synthetic aniline compounds were first systematically studied.
Acetanilide (a type of anilide) became the first synthetic painkiller widely used in medicine—this discovery in 1886 launched the pharmaceutical industry and showed how coal-tar chemistry could save lives, not just make prettier fabrics.
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