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phosphoramidite en · NOUN

Etymology

From phosphor + amidite.

Meanings

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:

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