Aromatic Heterocycles & Derivatives Available For Purchase

Our Aromatic Heterocyclic Chemical Suppliers

We have partnered with a range of chemical manufacturers who specialize exclusively in synthesizing aromatic heterocyclic compounds and their derivatives. With years of industry experience, our suppliers offer the most common aromatic heterocyclic compounds, or can custom manufacture aromatic heterocyclic compounds that you cannot purchase from most chemical suppliers.

With all orders, you can order the exact amount of chemical that you need - with no minimum order - in a cost and time effective manner that other suppliers cannot match.

Aromatic Heterocycles Physical Properties & Structure

Aromatic heterocycles are unsaturated organic ring compounds in which one or more of the carbons in the chain have been replaced, typically by an oxygen, nitrogen or sulfur atom. Although most heterocyclic compounds are 6-membered rings, aromatic heterocycles can have rings containing a minimum of 3 atoms - such as ethylene oxide or ethylenimine for example.

This type of compound accounts for one of the largest classification of organic molecules due to the variation of atom combinations that are possible. For example, another classification of chemical compounds we sell - pyridine - classes as an aromatic heterocycle in its own right.

Aromatic Heterocyclic Derivatives

The number of aromatic heterocyclic derivatives is vast. 3-membered aromatic heterocycles are found as oxiranes (epoxides), 5-membered rings can exist as furans or pyrroles and 6-membered rings as pyrazine or pyrimidine.

In addition to single heterocyclic rings, aromatic heterocycles can exist as two rings fused together, which can have differing ring sizes, including compounds such as purine or benzothiophene.

The Reactivity of Aromatic Heterocycles

Generalizing the reactivity of aromatic heterocycles is impossible due to the vast number of different molecules that exist, but this also means that types of reactions that aromatic heterocycles can undergo are also large. To understand the general reactivity of aromatic heterocycles, it is a good start to consider the number of heterocyclic rings in the compound, the size of these heterocyclic ring(s) and elements other than carbon that exist in the ring.

Applications of Aromatic Heterocycles & their Derivatives

Just like the reactivity of aromatic heterocycles, the applications of these class of compounds are wide ranging, due to the range of chemical properties that they exhibit.

Heterocyclic compounds are used in many different applications, such as pharmaceuticals, biomolecules, agrochemicals and veterinary medicine, to name a few.

In pharmaceuticals, aromatic heterocycles are the building blocks for larger complex molecules that are used to create medicines such as antibiotics, whereas industrial applications involve using heterocycles to make corrosion inhibitors and dyes for example.