Relating to or derived from benzil; describing compounds containing the benzil structure or formed through benzil reactions.
From 'benzil' + '-ic' (adjective suffix). Emerged as chemists classified reactions and compounds derived from benzil.
The benzilic acid rearrangement is one of chemistry's classic name reactions—it's so elegant and useful that it's taught in every organic chemistry course as an example of how molecules can gracefully shuffle atoms.
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