What does trifluoromethyl mean?

trifluoromethyl

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.54 in modern English

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"Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich 2,5-Bis(trifluoromethyl)-1,3,4-oxadiazole (104) has been reported by several groups to react with ring-strained alkenes under forcing thermal conditions to produce coupled products"

trifluoromethyls (plural)

trifluoromethylation trifluoromethylphenyl

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