Meanings
- uncountableBringing together, integration, or coparticipation.
Empathy signifies exploring, reconnoitering, contemplating, estimating, judging, “feeling into,” but not “feeling with” the other person. Symphoria implies “feeling into” and “feeling and swing with” the other person.
1939 November 29, Eugen Kahn, Helen G. Richter, “Sensitivity”, in The American Journal of Psychiatry, volume 96- uncountablechemistrySpecifically, the bringing together of reactants into the exact relative spatial arrangement and proximity most formative of chemical reactions. The term encompasses both neighboring group effects and catalysis by transition metal complexes, enzymes, or other molecules.
It is proposed that [BbIm]OH along with a water molecule is able to catalyse the reaction due to symphoria.
2019 January 25, Dr. Riyaj S. Tamboli, Dr. Mahesh M. Shidore, Dr. Radha Charan Dash, Dr. Ashish M. Kanhed, Nirav R. Patel, Dr. Shailesh R. Shah, Prof. Mangeram Ram Yadav, “Improved Rapid and Green Synthesis of N-Aryl Piperazine Hydrochlorides Using Synergistic Coupling of Hydrated Task Specific Ionic Liquid ([BbIm]OH) and Microwave Irradiation”, in ChemistrySelect, volume 4, number 4
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Origin
- Ancient Greekσῠμφέρω“bring together”
- Englishsymphoria
From Ancient Greek σῠμφέρω (sŭmphérō, “bring together”). The chemistry sense was coined by Robert Thornton Morrison and Robert Neilson Boyd in the 5th (1987) edition of Organic Chemistry.
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