aryne
Meanings
noun
- Any hydrocarbon, normally a transient species, derived from an arene by removal of two hydrogen atoms from adjacent carbon atoms, and thus possessing a formal triple bond; the simplest is benzyne
Word forms
Etymology
From ar(omatic) + -yne.
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