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antielimination

antielimination noun: elimination of substituents from opposite sides of a double bond.

Noun

antielimination (uncountable)

  1. elimination of substituents from opposite sides of a double bond
    • Antielimination occurs in both solvents […]1976, Michael R. J. Dack, Solutions and solubilities (volume 8, part 2, page 177)
    • These arise through re-addition of the initially formed palladium hydride and subsequent antielimination of the trimethylsilyl and palladium moieties.1995, Alan Roy Katritzky, Otto Meth-Cohn, Stanley Michael Roberts, Comprehensive organic functional group transformations, page 490

Origin of antielimination

From anti- + elimination.

Questions about antielimination

What does antielimination mean?
Antielimination means elimination of substituents from opposite sides of a double bond.
What part of speech is antielimination?
Antielimination is a noun.

Words near antielimination in the dictionary

  1. antielectron neutrino
  2. antielectron neutrinos
  3. antielectrons
  4. antielement
  5. antielements
  6. antielimination
  7. antielite
  8. antielites
  9. antielitism
  10. antielitist
  11. antielitists

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