ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Aryne

Definition & Meaning

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Aryne is a noun meaning (organic chemistry) Any hydrocarbon, normally a transient species, derived from an arene by removal of two hydrogen atoms from adjacent carbon atoms, and thus possessing a formal triple bond; the simplest is benzyne.

Meaning

(organic chemistry) Any hydrocarbon, normally a transient species, derived from an arene by removal of two hydrogen atoms from adjacent carbon atoms, and thus possessing a formal triple bond; the simplest is benzyne.

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Related dictionary entries include alkyne, ethyne, arylene, heteroaryne, dehydroarene, arene.

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