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diyl

diyl noun: used in descriptive names to indicate the presence of two identical substituents or functional groups attached to a central atom or structure.

Noun

diyl

  1. Used in descriptive names to indicate the presence of two identical substituents or functional groups attached to a central atom or structure.
    • Both the thermally and the photochemically initiated extrusion of nitrogen from bicyclic diazene (1) leads to the formation of a 1,3-diradical (diyl) which is structurally related to trimethylenemethane.1992, L.A. Paquette, Combining C-C ?-Bonds, page 240

Words formed from diyl

Questions about diyl

What does diyl mean?
Diyl means used in descriptive names to indicate the presence of two identical substituents or functional groups attached to a central atom or structure.
What part of speech is diyl?
Diyl is a noun.

Words near diyl in the dictionary

  1. DIYer
  2. DIYers
  3. DIYing
  4. diyingehu
  5. diyinruan
  6. diyl
  7. diylidene
  8. diyne
  9. diynes
  10. diynyl
  11. DIYs

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