metathesis

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As stated by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences when awarding the 2005 Nobel Prize, "metathesis is an example of how important basic science has been applied for the benefit of man, society, and the environment."

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  1. noun Linguistics Transposition within a word of letters, sounds, or syllables, as in the change from Old English brid to modern English bird or in the confusion of modren for modern.
  2. noun Chemistry Double decomposition.

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  • The wide range covered by nearly forty contributions ensures a concise overview of the latest developments in the field, whether they be new methods of C-C bond formation or racemization, asymmetric phase-transfer catalysis or stereoselective metathesis reactions, solid phase reactions or particularly elegant syntheses of challenging natural products. —  AvaxHome RSS:
  • Materia was founded in 1998 to commercialize olefin metathesis catalyst technology. —  Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
  • As stated by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences when awarding the 2005 Nobel Prize, "metathesis is an example of how important basic science has been applied for the benefit of man, society, and the environment." —  Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
  • Grubbs 'olefin metathesis reaction was utilized to prepare a macrocyclic variant of a linear Grb2 SH2 domain antagonist in an attempt to induce a β-bend conformation known to be required for high affinity binding. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • It looks as if I'll be running a ring-closing metathesis reaction soon. —  In the Pipeline
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  1. Late Latin, from Greek, from metatithenai, to transpose : meta-, meta- + tithenai, to place; see dhē- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Late Latin, from Greek μετάθεσις, transposition, metathesis, from μετατίθεναι, put over, transpose, from μετά, over, + τιθέναι, put: see thesis.
 

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/mɛˈtæθɛsɪs/
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