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triphenylphosphonium

triphenylphosphonium noun: a cation derived from triphenylphosphine.

Noun

triphenylphosphonium (plural triphenylphosphoniums)

  1. A cation derived from triphenylphosphine
    • To promote its selective mitochondrial uptake driven by mitochondrial potential (ΔΨ m,i ), we tagged α-TOS with the delocalised cation triphenylphosphonium (TPP + ) to prepare mitochondrially targeted vitamin E succinate (MitoVES).2015 May 13, Bing Yan et al., “Mitochondrially targeted vitamin E succinate efficiently kills breast tumour-initiating cells in a complex II-dependent manner”, in BMC Cancer, volume 15, →DOI

Forms of triphenylphosphonium

pluraltriphenylphosphoniums

Questions about triphenylphosphonium

What does triphenylphosphonium mean?
Triphenylphosphonium means a cation derived from triphenylphosphine.
What part of speech is triphenylphosphonium?
Triphenylphosphonium is a noun.
What is the plural of triphenylphosphonium?
The plural of triphenylphosphonium is triphenylphosphoniums.

Words near triphenylphosphonium in the dictionary

  1. triphenylmethyls
  2. triphenylphosphane
  3. triphenylphosphate
  4. triphenylphosphine
  5. triphenylphosphines
  6. triphenylphosphonium
  7. triphenylphosphoniums
  8. triphenyls
  9. triphenylsilanamine
  10. triphenylstibine
  11. triphenyltetrazolium

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