Diyl

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Used in descriptive names to indicate the presence of two identical substituents or functional groups attached to a central atom or structure.

    "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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"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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