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[sʌbˈstɪtʃuənt] · noun
(chemistry) Any atom, group, or radical substituted for another, or entering a molecule in place of some other part which is removed..
Other highly effective heterocyclic substituents were pyrazinyl and quinoxalyl.
From ethyleneoxides or ethyleneimines carrying an acyl substituent, with hydrazine and its derivatives (Ch. 3. XV).
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 ].
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Substituent means (chemistry) Any atom, group, or radical substituted for another, or entering a molecule in place of some other part which is removed..
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Other highly effective heterocyclic substituents were pyrazinyl and quinoxalyl.
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