detritylation

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noun

The removal of a trityl protecting group

Scrabble 17

Meanings

noundetritylation (plural detritylations)

plural detritylations

  1. chemistryThe removal of a trityl protecting group

    With option (iii) one may run into the problem of partial detritylation of trimer building blocks due to their longer exposure to the mildly acidic coupling agent.

    2015 September 11, “A Robust and Versatile Method of Combinatorial Chemical Synthesis of Gene Libraries via Hierarchical Assembly of Partially Randomized Modules”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

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