Crown ether

noun

Word Frequency: 0.1

Definitions

1.nounAny of a class of macrocyclic compounds containing repeat units of -CH2CH2O-

2.nounAny similar compound containing atoms of nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus or silicon instead of, or as well as, oxygen

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