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These bodies are derivatives of pyrrazol. Thus pyrrhol,

by the replacing of another

is converted into pyrrazol. In antipyrine, a phenol radical is substituted for the NH of pyrrhol, and two methyl groups and oxygen introduced, thus -
Phenyldimethyl pyrazolon.

Isomeric compounds of antipyrine are known which are inert.
 
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