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diastereoselective

diastereoselective adjective: of, pertaining to, or exhibiting diastereoselectivity.

Adjective

diastereoselective (comparative more diastereoselective, superlative most diastereoselective)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting diastereoselectivity
    • Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich
      This electronwithdrawing functionality not only inhibits the tendency of vinyldiazomethanes to rearrange to 3H-pyrazoles, but is also necessary to achieve highly diastereoselective cyclopropanations.

Forms of diastereoselective

comparativemore diastereoselective
superlativemost diastereoselective

Words formed from diastereoselective

Questions about diastereoselective

What does diastereoselective mean?
Diastereoselective means of, pertaining to, or exhibiting diastereoselectivity.
What part of speech is diastereoselective?
Diastereoselective is an adjective.

Words near diastereoselective in the dictionary

  1. diastereomixture
  2. diastereomixtures
  3. diastereomorphism
  4. diastereoselection
  5. diastereoselections
  6. diastereoselective
  7. diastereoselectively
  8. diastereoselectivities
  9. diastereoselectivity
  10. diastereoseparation
  11. diastereoseparations

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