alkylic

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adjective

Relating to or composed of alkyl chains; aliphatic.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adjectivealkylic (not comparable)
  1. not comparableRelating to or composed of alkyl chains; aliphatic.
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    In other studies, Othman et al. and Vaccaro et al. synthesized and characterized amphiphilic complex obtained by coupling the hydrophilic DOTA ligand [1,4,7,10-tetrakis(carboxymethyl)-1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane] to squalenoyl moieties and complexes containing amphiphilic supramolecular aggregates DTPAGlu chelating agent covalently bound to two C18 alkylic chains with a good relaxivity of 15–22 s -1 mM −1 (at 20 MHz and 37°C) and 21.5–24 s -1 mM −1 (at 20 MHz and 25°C), respectively [ 32, 33 ].

    2015 August 10, Simone Rodrigues Silva et al., “Gadolinium(III) Complexes with N-Alkyl-N-methylglucamine Surfactants Incorporated into Liposomes as Potential MRI Contrast Agents”, in Bioinorganic Chemistry and Applications, volume 2015, →DOI

Origin

  1. Akkadian𒎎𒋆𒁉𒍣𒁕 (guḫlum)
  2. Aramaicכוחלא (kuḥlā)
  3. Arabicكُحْل (kuḥl)
  4. Andalusian Arabicكُحُول (kuḥūl)
  5. Medieval Latinalcoho
  6. Middle Englishalcofol
  7. Englishalc(ohol)
  8. Proto-Indo-European*swel-der.?
  9. Ancient Greekῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)
  10. Englishalkyl
  11. Englishalkylic

From alkyl + -ic.

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