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formyl

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Meaning

  1. noun The univalent radical -CHO, derived from formaldehyde, that is characteristic of aldehydes

Similar words

thf kynurenine methionine phenylalanine tetrahydrofolate chloroformyl formaldehyde fluoromethyl formylmethionyl formamido

Often followed by

group peptide methionine groups peptides derivative and radical methionyl tetrahydrofolate

Word family

formyls

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