Meanings
present singular third person debenzylates · participle present debenzylating · participle past debenzylated · past debenzylated
- transitivechemistryTo remove one or more benzyl groups from.
This method described by Sinaÿ et al. can only debenzylate the α-isomer of 20 and led to compound 21 which was then phosphorylated using the dibenzyl phosphoramidite and subsequently oxidized to compound 22.
2015 August 5, Abbas El Sahili et al., “A Pyranose-2-Phosphate Motif Is Responsible for Both Antibiotic Import and Quorum-Sensing Regulation in Agrobacterium tumefaciens”, in PLoS Pathogens, volume 11, →DOI
Origin
From de- + benzyl + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
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