Etymology

cheletropic

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Today it means: Describing a pericyclic addition reaction across the terminal atoms of a fully conjugated system in which two new single bonds are formed with a single atom of the reactant. Full definition →

Ancient Greek χηλή
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  1. Ancient Greek · borrowed fromχηλή
  2. English todaycheletropic

From Ancient Greek χηλή (khēlḗ) + + -tropic.

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Ancient Greekχηλή all →

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