Etymology

atrane

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Today it means: Any of a class of tricyclic cagelike heterocycles having a transannular dative bond between a nitrogen and another heteroatom Full definition →

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Modern coinage by Russian chemist Mikhail Grigorievich Voronkov c.1965.

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