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carbonyl Definition

car·bonyl (kärbə nil′)

noun

  1. the chemical group CO
  2. any of a wide variety of compounds containing this group, esp. certain metal compounds

Etymology: carbon + -yl

Related Forms:

  • carbonylic car′·bonyl′ic (-nilik) adjective
carbonyl Usage Examples

Adjective modifier

  • reactive: We are currently elucidating the molecular mechanisms responsible for the adjuvant and immune biasing activity of reactive carbonyls and methods for their elimination.

Modifies a noun

  • oxygen: Note how, within the plane of the sheet, backbone carbonyl oxygen atoms point toward backbone amino N atoms of the adjacent strand.
  • ligand: What does the latter evidence indicate as regards the behavior of the carbonyl ligands at the temperature of the measurement?
  • compound: Recent Publications: Ab initio computations on simple carbonyl compounds, W. O. George, B. F. Jones, Rh.
  • atom: Note how, within the plane of the sheet, backbone carbonyl oxygen atoms point toward backbone amino N atoms of the adjacent strand.
  • carbon: The C-O bond breaks ( shown by the red line ) allowing the H 2 18 O hydrolysis with the labeled carbonyl carbon.
  • bond: A bond that is commonly encountered in molecules is the C=O ( C doubly bonded to O ) or carbonyl bond.

Noun used with modifier

  • backbone: Note how, within the plane of the sheet, backbone carbonyl oxygen atoms point toward backbone amino N atoms of the adjacent strand.
  • metal: Application of the 18 electron rule to metal carbonyl complexes.
  • transition: To establish the viability of 18 as a ligand we reacted it with a range of transition metal carbonyl compounds with mixed results.
  • peptide: Simultaneously, the other aspartate donates a proton to the oxygen of the peptide carbonyl group.