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proprochiral

proprochiral adjective: describing an achiral compound that can be converted to a chiral one in two steps.

Adjective

proprochiral (not comparable)

  1. Describing an achiral compound that can be converted to a chiral one in two steps

Origin of proprochiral

From pro- + prochiral.

Questions about proprochiral

What does proprochiral mean?
Proprochiral means describing an achiral compound that can be converted to a chiral one in two steps.
What part of speech is proprochiral?
Proprochiral is an adjective.

Words near proprochiral in the dictionary

  1. proprioreceptory
  2. propriosensitivity
  3. propriospinal
  4. propriospinally
  5. proprium
  6. proprochiral
  7. proprochirality
  8. proproctor
  9. proproctors
  10. proprofit
  11. proprohibition

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