methylalumination
/ˌmɛθɪləˌluːmɪˈneɪʃən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
6
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A chemical reaction involving the addition of a methyl group and an aluminum moiety to a substrate, typically an alkyne or alkene, resulting in the formation of organoaluminum compounds.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Zirconium-catalysed methylalumination of the propargylic and homopropargylic species (111) is uniformly highly regio- and stero-selective; the resulting alanes (112) are versatile olefin synthons."
- "The reaction is broad in scope with respect to R¹ in the single most important case of methylalumination."
- "The regio- and stereoselectivity of the overall reaction is determined solely by the selection of ligands in methylalumination reactions."