spirocyclooctane

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

spirocyclooctane spirocyclooctanes

Etymology

From spiro- + cyclooctane.

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