sulfomethyl

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noun

A chemical group derived from methanesulfonic acid (-CH₂SO₃H).

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Meanings

nounsulfomethyl (uncountable)
  1. in compoundsuncountablechemistryA chemical group derived from methanesulfonic acid (-CH₂SO₃H).

    In a recent paper on homopyrimidine decamers containing aeg-monomers and thymine monomers with a sulfomethyl substituent at the γ-position, similar triplexes has also been described [43 ].

    2015 October 16, “Polyanionic Carboxyethyl Peptide Nucleic Acids ( ce -PNAs): Synthesis and DNA Binding”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

From sulfo- + methyl.

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