Meanings
- A diene with a 22-carbon chain and two double bonds.
The main peak in the window is docosene eluting at 66.17min with two satellite peaks, docosane (eluting at 65.85min) and 1,21-docosadiene (eluting at 66.43min).
2018, Serban C. Moldoveanu, Pyrolysis of Organic Molecules, page 691 more example
We therefore synthesized bis-trimethylammonium-docasane dirbromide from docosadiene to obtain at least eight to ten straight chain segments assuming the molecule would fold in aqueous solution.
1980, Wolfgang Helfrich, Gerd Heppke, Liquid Crystals of One- and Two-Dimensional Order, page 304
Origin
By surface analysis, docosa- + di- + -ene.
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