See Also: Wolff's law(medicine)
Wolff(dictionary)
Wolff, Julius(medicine)
Wolff, Kaspar(medicine)
Wolff, Louis(medicine)
Wolff-Chaikoff effect(medicine)
Wolff-Chaikoff block(medicine)
Wolff, Kaspar Friedrich(medicine)
wolff-parkinson-white syndrome(medicine)
Wolff Parkinson White Syndrome (WPW)(health)

Wolff (iou)



Wolff noun. M20.
[Ludwig Wolff (1857-1919), German chemist.]
Chemistry. Wolff rearrangement, a molecular rearrangement, important in the conversion of an organic acid to its next higher homologue, in which a diazoketone loses a molecule of nitrogen and forms a ketene.
Comb.: Wolff-Kishner reduction [Nikolai M. Kishner (1867-1935), Russian chemist] the reduction of an aldehyde or ketone to an alkane by heating the hydrazone or semicarbazone derivative in a strongly basic solution.