desethylsimazine

noun

The heterocyclic diamine 6-chloro-2-N-ethyl-1,3,5-triazine-2,4-diamine

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Meanings

noundesethylsimazine (uncountable)
  1. uncountablechemistryThe heterocyclic diamine 6-chloro-2-N-ethyl-1,3,5-triazine-2,4-diamine

    We have identified an s-triazine hydrolase that catalyzes both the dechlorination and deamination reactions of diamino-s-triazines such as desethylsimazine and desethylatrazine [105 ] in all the strains of the P.

    2016 February 26, “Genomic and Genetic Diversity within the Pseudomonas fluorescens Complex”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

From des- + ethyl + simazine.

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