substituent
noun[sʌbˈstɪtʃuənt]
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Chemistry, Natural sciences, Physical sciences 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.1951, Apollonia Frances Olson, Helen G. Tibbitts, A Study of Head Nurse Activities in a General Hospital, 1950, page 163:
- From ethyleneoxides or ethyleneimines carrying an acyl substituent, with hydrazine and its derivatives (Ch. 3. XV).2009, Richard H. Wiley, Pyrazoles and Reduced and Condensed Pyrazoles, Volume 22, page 387:
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- 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 ].2015 October 16, “Polyanionic Carboxyethyl Peptide Nucleic Acids ( ce -PNAs): Synthesis and DNA Binding”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
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Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Pro-form.
- Derived terms
- disubstituent, multisubstituent
- Related terms
- constituent, substitute