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monochlorinated

monochlorinated adjective: chlorinated with a single atom of chlorine.

Adjective

monochlorinated (not comparable)

  1. chlorinated with a single atom of chlorine
    • For example, the monochlorinated analog of 1, hectochlorin C ( 6 ), is likely produced by a process wherein the chlorination enzyme fails to catalyze the addition of a second chlorine atom to the substrate, and this modification is transparent to subsequent downstream biosynthetic steps.2015 July 30, “Expanding the Described Metabolome of the Marine Cyanobacterium Moorea producens JHB through Orthogonal Natural Products Workflows”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of monochlorinated

From mono- + chlorinated.

Questions about monochlorinated

What does monochlorinated mean?
Monochlorinated means chlorinated with a single atom of chlorine.
What part of speech is monochlorinated?
Monochlorinated is an adjective.

Words near monochlorinated in the dictionary

  1. monochlorid
  2. monochloride
  3. monochlorides
  4. monochlorids
  5. monochlorinate
  6. monochlorinated
  7. monochlorinates
  8. monochlorinating
  9. monochlorination
  10. monochlorinations
  11. monochloroalkane

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