Chemistry Question about Analgesics (painkillers)?!?!?

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Chemistry Question about Analgesics (painkillers)?!?!?

What makes it possible (structure-wise) to see analgesics under UV light?

2007-10-02 13:48:13 · 1 answers · asked by bdgurl5388 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry

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They all of them have a benzene ring, often conjugated with other groups that spread electron density out of the ring. Benzenes and many substituted benzenes are chromophores under UV-light.

2007-10-02 13:53:38 · answer #1 · answered by steve_geo1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋