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phosphoramidite

phosphoramidite noun: any amidite formally derived from a phosphite; they are used in the synthesis of nucleic acids etc.

Noun

phosphoramidite (plural phosphoramidites)

  1. Any amidite formally derived from a phosphite; they are used in the synthesis of nucleic acids etc
    • The resultant phosphoramidite is stable and can be stored in the absence of moisture as a white powder.2005, Philip J. Kocieński, Protecting Groups
    • All the 60-mer length oligonucleotide probes, base-by-base, are printed from digital sequence files and the standard phosphoramidite chemistry used in the reactions allows for high coupling efficiencies . . .2005, R. Dougherty, Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics

Forms of phosphoramidite

pluralphosphoramidites

Origin of phosphoramidite

From phosphor + amidite.

Questions about phosphoramidite

What does phosphoramidite mean?
Phosphoramidite means any amidite formally derived from a phosphite; they are used in the synthesis of nucleic acids etc.
What part of speech is phosphoramidite?
Phosphoramidite is a noun.
What is the plural of phosphoramidite?
The plural of phosphoramidite is phosphoramidites.

Words near phosphoramidite in the dictionary

  1. phosphoramidation
  2. phosphoramidations
  3. phosphoramide
  4. phosphoramides
  5. phosphoramidic
  6. phosphoramidite
  7. phosphoramidites
  8. phosphoramidon
  9. phosphorane
  10. phosphoranes
  11. phosphoranyl

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