phosphoramidite
nounEtymology From phosphor + amidite.
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Chemistry, Natural sciences, Organic chemistry, Physical sciences Any amidite formally derived from a phosphite; they are used in the synthesis of nucleic acids etc
- The resultant phosphoramidite is stable and can be stored in the absence of moisture as a white powder.2005, Philip J. Kocieński, Protecting Groups:
- All the 60-mer length oligonucleotide probes, base-by-base, are printed from digital sequence files and the standard phosphoramidite chemistry used in the reactions allows for high coupling efficiencies . . .2005, R. Dougherty, Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics: