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desacetyl

desacetyl noun: any compound that has undergone deacetylation.

Noun

desacetyl (plural desacetyls)

  1. Any compound that has undergone deacetylation.
    • Cephalosporin derivatives and their desacetyls and lactones moved; however, cephalosporin C itself and its desacetyl and lactone derivatives failed to move in this system.2000, M.J. Weinstein, G.H. Wagman, Chromatography of Antibiotics, page 89

Forms of desacetyl

pluraldesacetyls

Words formed from desacetyl

Questions about desacetyl

What does desacetyl mean?
Desacetyl means any compound that has undergone deacetylation.
What part of speech is desacetyl?
Desacetyl is a noun.
What is the plural of desacetyl?
The plural of desacetyl is desacetyls.

Words near desacetyl in the dictionary

  1. des-γ-carboxyprothrombin
  2. desa
  3. desaccade
  4. desaccaded
  5. desacetoxywortmannin
  6. desacetyl
  7. desacetylation
  8. desacetylations
  9. desacetylcryptograndoside
  10. desacetyldigilanide
  11. desacetyllanatoside

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