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Dimerization (chemistry), the Glossary

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Index Dimerization (chemistry)

In chemistry, dimerization is the process of joining two identical or similar molecular entities by bonds.[1]

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  1. 92 relations: Acetic acid, Anhydrous, Aspartame, Borane, Boron, Bromine, Caesium, Carbene, Carboxylic acid, Carcinogen, Carnosine, Cellobiose, Chemical bond, Chemical species, Chemistry, Chlorine, Condensation reaction, Conformational change, Cyclopentadiene, Cytoplasm, Degree of polymerization, Diargon, Diatomic molecule, Diborane, Dicyclopentadiene, Diels–Alder reaction, Dilithium, Dioxetane, Dipeptide, Dirubidium, Disaccharide, Dissociation (chemistry), Excimer, Excited state, Fluorine, Formaldehyde, Fructose, G protein-coupled receptor, GABAB receptor, Glucose, Glycine, Glycylglycine, Halogen, Helium dimer, Homonuclear molecule, Hydrogen, Hydrogen bond, Iodine, Ion, Kinase, ... Expand index (42 more) »

  2. Dimers (chemistry)

Acetic acid

Acetic acid, systematically named ethanoic acid, is an acidic, colourless liquid and organic compound with the chemical formula (also written as,, or). Vinegar is at least 4% acetic acid by volume, making acetic acid the main component of vinegar apart from water.

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Anhydrous

A substance is anhydrous if it contains no water.

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Aspartame

Aspartame is an artificial non-saccharide sweetener 200 times sweeter than sucrose and is commonly used as a sugar substitute in foods and beverages.

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Borane

Borane, also known as borine, is an unstable and highly reactive molecule with the chemical formula.

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Boron

Boron is a chemical element; it has symbol B and atomic number 5.

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Bromine

Bromine is a chemical element; it has symbol Br and atomic number 35.

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Caesium

Caesium (IUPAC spelling; cesium in American English) is a chemical element; it has symbol Cs and atomic number 55.

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Carbene

In organic chemistry, a carbene is a molecule containing a neutral carbon atom with a valence of two and two unshared valence electrons.

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Carboxylic acid

In organic chemistry, a carboxylic acid is an organic acid that contains a carboxyl group attached to an R-group.

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Carcinogen

A carcinogen is any agent that promotes the development of cancer.

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Carnosine

Carnosine (beta-alanyl-L-histidine) is a dipeptide molecule, made up of the amino acids beta-alanine and histidine.

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Cellobiose

Cellobiose is a disaccharide with the formula (C6H7(OH)4O)2O.

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Chemical bond

A chemical bond is the association of atoms or ions to form molecules, crystals, and other structures.

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Chemical species

Chemical species are a specific form of chemical substance or chemically identical molecular entities that have the same molecular energy level at a specified timescale.

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Chemistry

Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter.

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Chlorine

Chlorine is a chemical element; it has symbol Cl and atomic number 17.

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Condensation reaction

In organic chemistry, a condensation reaction is a type of chemical reaction in which two molecules are combined to form a single molecule, usually with the loss of a small molecule such as water.

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Conformational change

In biochemistry, a conformational change is a change in the shape of a macromolecule, often induced by environmental factors.

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Cyclopentadiene

Cyclopentadiene is an organic compound with the formula C5H6.

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Cytoplasm

In cell biology, the cytoplasm describes all material within a eukaryotic cell, enclosed by the cell membrane, except for the cell nucleus.

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Degree of polymerization

The degree of polymerization, or DP, is the number of monomeric units in a macromolecule or polymer or oligomer molecule.

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Diargon

Diargon or the argon dimer is a molecule containing two argon atoms.

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Diatomic molecule

Diatomic molecules are molecules composed of only two atoms, of the same or different chemical elements.

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Diborane

Diborane(6), commonly known as diborane, is the chemical compound with the formula B2H6.

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Dicyclopentadiene

Dicyclopentadiene, abbreviated DCPD, is a chemical compound with formula. Dimerization (chemistry) and Dicyclopentadiene are dimers (chemistry).

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Diels–Alder reaction

In organic chemistry, the Diels–Alder reaction is a chemical reaction between a conjugated diene and a substituted alkene, commonly termed the dienophile, to form a substituted cyclohexene derivative.

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Dilithium

Dilithium, Li2, is a strongly electrophilic, diatomic molecule comprising two lithium atoms covalently bonded together.

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Dioxetane

A dioxetane or dioxacyclobutane is an organic compound with formula C2O2H4, whose backbone is a four-membered ring of two oxygen atoms and two carbon atoms.

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Dipeptide

A dipeptide is an organic compound derived from two amino acids.

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Dirubidium

Dirubidium is a molecular substance containing two atoms of rubidium found in rubidium vapour.

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Disaccharide

A disaccharide (also called a double sugar or biose) is the sugar formed when two monosaccharides are joined by glycosidic linkage.

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Dissociation (chemistry)

Dissociation in chemistry is a general process in which molecules (or ionic compounds such as salts, or complexes) separate or split into other things such as atoms, ions, or radicals, usually in a reversible manner.

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Excimer

An excimer (originally short for excited dimer) is a short-lived polyatomic molecule formed from two species that do not form a stable molecule in the ground state.

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Excited state

In quantum mechanics, an excited state of a system (such as an atom, molecule or nucleus) is any quantum state of the system that has a higher energy than the ground state (that is, more energy than the absolute minimum).

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Fluorine

Fluorine is a chemical element; it has symbol F and atomic number 9.

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Formaldehyde

Formaldehyde (systematic name methanal) is an organic compound with the chemical formula and structure, more precisely.

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Fructose

Fructose, or fruit sugar, is a ketonic simple sugar found in many plants, where it is often bonded to glucose to form the disaccharide sucrose.

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G protein-coupled receptor

G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), also known as seven-(pass)-transmembrane domain receptors, 7TM receptors, heptahelical receptors, serpentine receptors, and G protein-linked receptors (GPLR), form a large group of evolutionarily related proteins that are cell surface receptors that detect molecules outside the cell and activate cellular responses.

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GABAB receptor

GABAB receptors (GABABR) are G-protein coupled receptors for gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), therefore making them metabotropic receptors, that are linked via G-proteins to potassium channels.

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Glucose

Glucose is a sugar with the molecular formula.

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Glycine

Glycine (symbol Gly or G) is an amino acid that has a single hydrogen atom as its side chain.

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Glycylglycine

Glycylglycine is the dipeptide of glycine, making it the simplest peptide. Dimerization (chemistry) and Glycylglycine are dimers (chemistry).

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Halogen

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Helium dimer

The helium dimer is a van der Waals molecule with formula He2 consisting of two helium atoms. Dimerization (chemistry) and helium dimer are dimers (chemistry).

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Homonuclear molecule

In chemistry, homonuclear molecules, or homonuclear species, are molecules composed of only one element.

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Hydrogen

Hydrogen is a chemical element; it has symbol H and atomic number 1.

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Hydrogen bond

In chemistry, a hydrogen bond (or H-bond) is primarily an electrostatic force of attraction between a hydrogen (H) atom which is covalently bonded to a more electronegative "donor" atom or group (Dn), and another electronegative atom bearing a lone pair of electrons—the hydrogen bond acceptor (Ac).

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Iodine

Iodine is a chemical element; it has symbol I and atomic number 53.

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Ion

An ion is an atom or molecule with a net electrical charge.

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Kinase

In biochemistry, a kinase is an enzyme that catalyzes the transfer of phosphate groups from high-energy, phosphate-donating molecules to specific substrates.

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Lewis acids and bases

A Lewis acid (named for the American physical chemist Gilbert N. Lewis) is a chemical species that contains an empty orbital which is capable of accepting an electron pair from a Lewis base to form a Lewis adduct.

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Ligand (biochemistry)

In biochemistry and pharmacology, a ligand is a substance that forms a complex with a biomolecule to serve a biological purpose.

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Mercury (element)

Mercury is a chemical element; it has symbol Hg and atomic number 80.

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Microtubule

Microtubules are polymers of tubulin that form part of the cytoskeleton and provide structure and shape to eukaryotic cells.

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Molecular entity

In chemistry and physics, a molecular entity, or chemical entity, is "any constitutionally or isotopically distinct atom, molecule, ion, ion pair, radical, radical ion, complex, conformer, etc., identifiable as a separately distinguishable entity".

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Molecule

A molecule is a group of two or more atoms held together by attractive forces known as chemical bonds; depending on context, the term may or may not include ions which satisfy this criterion.

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Monomer

A monomer (mono-, "one" + -mer, "part") is a molecule that can react together with other monomer molecules to form a larger polymer chain or three-dimensional network in a process called polymerization.

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Monosaccharide

Monosaccharides (from Greek monos: single, sacchar: sugar), also called simple sugars, are the simplest forms of sugar and the most basic units (monomers) from which all carbohydrates are built.

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Mutation

In biology, a mutation is an alteration in the nucleic acid sequence of the genome of an organism, virus, or extrachromosomal DNA.

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Niels Bjerrum

Niels Janniksen Bjerrum (11 March 1879 in Copenhagen – 30 September 1958) was a Danish chemist.

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Nitrogen

Nitrogen is a chemical element; it has symbol N and atomic number 7.

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Noble gas

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Nucleotide base

Nucleotide bases (also nucleobases, nitrogenous bases) are nitrogen-containing biological compounds that form nucleosides, which, in turn, are components of nucleotides, with all of these monomers constituting the basic building blocks of nucleic acids.

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Oligomer

In chemistry and biochemistry, an oligomer is a molecule that consists of a few repeating units which could be derived, actually or conceptually, from smaller molecules, monomers.

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Organic photochemistry

Organic photochemistry encompasses organic reactions that are induced by the action of light.

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Organoaluminium chemistry

Organoaluminium chemistry is the study of compounds containing bonds between carbon and aluminium.

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Oxygen

Oxygen is a chemical element; it has symbol O and atomic number 8.

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Peptide bond

In organic chemistry, a peptide bond is an amide type of covalent chemical bond linking two consecutive alpha-amino acids from C1 (carbon number one) of one alpha-amino acid and N2 (nitrogen number two) of another, along a peptide or protein chain.

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Persistent carbene

A persistent carbene (also known as stable carbene) is an organic molecule whose natural resonance structure has a carbon atom with incomplete octet (a carbene), but does not exhibit the tremendous instability typically associated with such moieties.

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Polymer

A polymer is a substance or material consisting of very large molecules linked together into chains of repeating subunits.

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Polymerase

In biochemistry, a polymerase is an enzyme (EC 2.7.7.6/7/19/48/49) that synthesizes long chains of polymers or nucleic acids.

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Polymerization

In polymer chemistry, polymerization (American English), or polymerisation (British English), is a process of reacting monomer molecules together in a chemical reaction to form polymer chains or three-dimensional networks.

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Potassium

Potassium is a chemical element; it has symbol K (from Neo-Latin kalium) and atomic number19.

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Protein

Proteins are large biomolecules and macromolecules that comprise one or more long chains of amino acid residues.

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Protein dimer

In biochemistry, a protein dimer is a macromolecular complex or multimer formed by two protein monomers, or single proteins, which are usually non-covalently bound. Dimerization (chemistry) and protein dimer are dimers (chemistry).

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Protein domain

In molecular biology, a protein domain is a region of a protein's polypeptide chain that is self-stabilizing and that folds independently from the rest.

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Protein subunit

In structural biology, a protein subunit is a polypeptide chain or single protein molecule that assembles (or "coassembles") with others to form a protein complex.

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Pyrimidine dimer

Pyrimidine dimers represent molecular lesions originating from thymine or cytosine bases within DNA, resulting from photochemical reactions. Dimerization (chemistry) and Pyrimidine dimer are dimers (chemistry).

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Receptor (biochemistry)

In biochemistry and pharmacology, receptors are chemical structures, composed of protein, that receive and transduce signals that may be integrated into biological systems.

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Receptor tyrosine kinase

Receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) are the high-affinity cell surface receptors for many polypeptide growth factors, cytokines, and hormones.

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Signal transduction

Signal transduction is the process by which a chemical or physical signal is transmitted through a cell as a series of molecular events.

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Skin cancer

Skin cancers are cancers that arise from the skin.

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Sodium

Sodium is a chemical element; it has symbol Na (from Neo-Latin natrium) and atomic number 11.

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Steric effects

Steric effects arise from the spatial arrangement of atoms.

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Sucrose

Sucrose, a disaccharide, is a sugar composed of glucose and fructose subunits.

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Tetraaminoethylene

In organic chemistry, tetraaminoethylene is a hypothetical, organic compound with formula or.

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Trimer (chemistry)

In chemistry, a trimer is a molecule or polyatomic anion formed by combination or association of three molecules or ions of the same substance.

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Trimethylaluminium

Trimethylaluminium is one of the simplest examples of an organoaluminium compound.

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Tubulin

Tubulin in molecular biology can refer either to the tubulin protein superfamily of globular proteins, or one of the member proteins of that superfamily.

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Van der Waals force

In molecular physics and chemistry, the van der Waals force (sometimes van de Waals' force) is a distance-dependent interaction between atoms or molecules.

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Water

Water is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula.

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Water dimer

The water dimer consists of two water molecules loosely bound by a hydrogen bond. Dimerization (chemistry) and water dimer are dimers (chemistry).

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See also

Dimers (chemistry)

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimerization_(chemistry)

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