Word.ws English Dictionary

diazirine

diazirine noun: the unsaturated heterocycle consisting of a three-membered ring containing one carbon atom and two nitrogen atoms connected by a double bond; it is isomeric with diazomethane.

Noun

diazirine (plural diazirines)

  1. The unsaturated heterocycle consisting of a three-membered ring containing one carbon atom and two nitrogen atoms connected by a double bond; it is isomeric with diazomethane

Forms of diazirine

pluraldiazirines

Words formed from diazirine

Questions about diazirine

What does diazirine mean?
Diazirine means the unsaturated heterocycle consisting of a three-membered ring containing one carbon atom and two nitrogen atoms connected by a double bond; it is isomeric with diazomethane.
What part of speech is diazirine?
Diazirine is a noun.
What is the plural of diazirine?
The plural of diazirine is diazirines.

Words near diazirine in the dictionary

  1. diaziquone
  2. diazirene
  3. diazirenes
  4. diaziridine
  5. diaziridines
  6. diazirine
  7. diazirines
  8. diazirino
  9. diazirinos
  10. diazo
  11. diazo compound

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: diazirine (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “diazirine.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/diazirine. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.