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substituent en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• [sʌbˈstɪtʃuənt]
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Meanings

1. Any atom, group, or radical substituted for another, or entering a molecule in place of some other part which is removed.
   • In a recent paper on homopyrimidine decamers containing aeg-monomers and thymine monomers with a sulfomethyl substituent at the γ-position, similar triplexes has also been described [43 ]. 2015 October 16, “Polyanionic Carboxyethyl Peptide Nucleic Acids ( ce -PNAs): Synthesis and DNA Binding”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
   • Other highly effective heterocyclic substituents were pyrazinyl and quinoxalyl. 1951, Apollonia Frances Olson, Helen G. Tibbitts, A Study of Head Nurse Activities in a General Hospital, 1950, page 163:
   • From ethyleneoxides or ethyleneimines carrying an acyl substituent, with hydrazine and its derivatives (Ch. 3. XV). 2009, Richard H. Wiley, Pyrazoles and Reduced and Condensed Pyrazoles, Volume 22, page 387:
2. Pro-form.

Forms

Deriveds

multisubstituent · disubstituent

Relateds

constituent · substitute

Translations (8)

ga ionadán (chemistry) · it sostituente (chemistry) · pl podstawnik (chemistry) · pl zastępnik (linguistics) · de Substituent (chemistry) · ga malartaí (chemistry) · pl substytut (linguistics) · hu elágazás (chemistry)