phosphoramidite

plural phosphoramidites

1. chemistryAny amidite formally derived from a phosphite; they are used in the synthesis of nucleic acids etc

   The resultant phosphoramidite is stable and can be stored in the absence of moisture as a white powder.

   2005, Philip J. Kocieński, Protecting Groups

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   All the 60-mer length oligonucleotide probes, base-by-base, are printed from digital sequence files and the standard phosphoramidite chemistry used in the reactions allows for high coupling efficiencies . . .

   2005, R. Dougherty, Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics