ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Alkylidene

Definition & Meaning

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Alkylidene is a noun meaning (organic chemistry) Any of a class of divalent functional groups derived from an alkane by removal of two hydrogen atoms from the same carbon atom, the free valencies being part of a double bond - R₂C=.

Meaning

(organic chemistry) Any of a class of divalent functional groups derived from an alkane by removal of two hydrogen atoms from the same carbon atom, the free valencies being part of a double bond - R₂C=.

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include alkylideneaminyl, alkylidyne, alkyl, alkylene, arylalkylidene, alkylideneamino.

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