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substituent

noun
/sʌbˈstɪtʃuənt/

Definitions

  1. Any atom, group, or radical substituted for another, or entering a molecule in place of…

    Any atom, group, or radical substituted for another, or entering a molecule in place of some other part which is removed.

    • Other highly effective heterocyclic substituents were pyrazinyl and quinoxalyl.
    • From ethyleneoxides or ethyleneimines carrying an acyl substituent, with hydrazine and its derivatives (Ch. 3. XV).
    • In a recent paper on homopyrimidine decamers containing aeg-monomers and thymine monomers with a sulfomethyl substituent at the γ-position, similar triplexes has also been described [43 ].

  2. Pro-form.

The neighborhood

Derived

disubstituent, multisubstituent

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for substituent. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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