spirocycloheptane

noun

A divalent radical in which a cycloheptane ring is fused to another ring at a single carbon atom, the two rings being more or less at right angles to one another.

Scrabble 31

Meanings

nounspirocycloheptane (plural spirocycloheptanes)

plural spirocycloheptanes

  1. chemistryA divalent radical in which a cycloheptane ring is fused to another ring at a single carbon atom, the two rings being more or less at right angles to one another.
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