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antielimination en · NOUN

Etymology

From anti- + elimination.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) elimination of substituents from opposite sides of a double bond
    • Antielimination occurs in both solvents […] 1976, Michael R. J. Dack, Solutions and solubilities (volume 8, part 2, page 177)
    • These arise through re-addition of the initially formed palladium hydride and subsequent antielimination of the trimethylsilyl and palladium moieties. 1995, Alan Roy Katritzky, Otto Meth-Cohn, Stanley Michael Roberts, Comprehensive organic functional group transformations, page 490: