Benzhydryl compounds

Ball-and-stick model of diphenylmethane

The benzhydryl compounds are a group of organic compounds whose parent structures include diphenylmethane (which is two benzene rings connected by a single methane), with any number of attached substituents, including bridges. This group typically excludes compounds in which either benzene is fused to another ring (bicyclic, tricyclic, polycyclic)[1] or includes a heteroatom, or where the methane connects to three or four benzenes.

Ball-and-stick model of the benzhydryl radical

The benzhydryl radical can be abbreviated Ph
2CH• or Bzh.[2]

  1. ^ Benzhydryl Compounds at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
  2. ^ "Abbreviations and Symbols". European Journal of Biochemistry. 74 (1): 1–6. 1977. doi:10.1111/j.1432-1033.1977.tb11359.x. ISSN 0014-2956.