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wittig reaction

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.93 in modern English

Syllables
wit-tig re-ac-tion
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A chemical reaction of an aldehyde or ketone with a triphenyl phosphonium ylide to give an alkene and triphenylphosphine oxide.

Etymology

The Wittig reaction was discovered in 1954 by Georg Wittig.

Inflected Forms

Wittig reactions (plural)

Phrases

Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction

Frequently Paired Words

Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction

Questions

What does wittig reaction mean?
A chemical reaction of an aldehyde or ketone with a triphenyl phosphonium ylide to give an alkene and triphenylphosphine oxide.
Where does wittig reaction come from?
The Wittig reaction was discovered in 1954 by Georg Wittig.

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