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What is the noun for carbonyl?

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carbonyl
  1. (organic chemistry) In organic chemistry, a divalent functional group, (-CO-), characteristic of aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, amides, carboxylic acid anhydrides, carbonyl halides, esters and others.
  2. (inorganic chemistry) Any compound of a metal with carbon monoxide, such as nickel carbonyl, Ni(CO)4.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Perhaps the richest and certainly the most extensively studied cluster compounds are the carbonyl complexes.”
      “In this process carbonyl compounds form hydrates which have different properties from those of the parent.”
      “The carboxylic acid group of the drug is first reacted with an activated carbonyl group like that found on isobutyl chloroformate.”
carbonylation
  1. (chemistry) Any reaction that introduces a carbonyl group into a compound, especially by reaction with carbon monoxide
  2. Examples:
    1. “He continues to work on inventing new catalysts and carbonylation processes and continues to produce some very promising results which we are very excited about.”
carbonylations
  1. plural of carbonylation
carbonyls
  1. plural of carbonyl
  2. Examples:
    1. “It is formed from the reaction of nitric oxide with superoxide, and produces carbonyls on proteins.”
      “Enols are less stable than carbonyls, and standard combustion mechanisms assume that they do not play a role.”
      “Metal carbonyls are organometallic compounds where one or more of the metal ligands are carbon monoxide.”
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