diyl

English

Noun

diyl

  1. (chemistry) Used in descriptive names to indicate the presence of two identical substituents or functional groups attached to a central atom or structure.
    • 1992, L.A. Paquette, Combining C-C ?-Bonds, page 240:
      Both the thermally and the photochemically initiated extrusion of nitrogen from bicyclic diazene (1) leads to the formation of a 1,3-diradical (diyl) which is structurally related to trimethylenemethane.

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