Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An old name for propyl.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Chem.), rare Propyl.

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  • noun organic chemistry propyl

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Examples

  • One particular pleasure of that period was the development of the methoxyl-trityl family of protecting groups for nucleoside-5'-hydroxyl groups (one synthesis of trimethoxytritanol erupted and left a large orange stain on the laboratory ceiling); this class of protecting group is still in use in modern automated syntheses of DNA and RNA fragments.

    Michael Smith - Autobiography 1994

  • Recently OMRI was successfully applied to in vivo oxymetry imaging by correlating the Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) line width variation of a trityl free radical to oxygen concentration

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Philippe Mellet et al. 2009

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