Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An organic compound containing many double bonds.
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- noun chemistry An
organic compound containing severaldouble bonds , especially one containing a sequence of manyalternating single and double bonds
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Examples
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Kuhn was fascinated by the unusual structural symmetry of the carbon bonds that form the molecular backbone of polyene pigments.
Richard Kuhn and the Chemical Institute: Double Bonds and Biological Mechanisms 2010
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Carotene was only the most highly visible of Kuhn's polyene studies.
Richard Kuhn and the Chemical Institute: Double Bonds and Biological Mechanisms 2010
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Ironically, in 1930, when impurities were hampering Kuhn's structural and functional work on polyene pigments, it was
Richard Kuhn and the Chemical Institute: Double Bonds and Biological Mechanisms 2010
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It is a lipid-soluble polyene chain with a polar region at either end.
Forever Young M.D. Nicholas Perricone 2010
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MLn fragments, has been used by my research group to analyze cluster bonding and the equilibrium geometries and conformational preferences of olefin and polyene metal carbonyl complexes.
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Kuhn's sixth report on conjugated double bonds already contains structure determinations of polyene dyes from vegetable materials.
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In the proposed mechanism for the early stage of 10-membered enediyne biosynthesis, CalE8 produces a carbonyl-conjugated polyene with the assistance of
Journal of Biological Chemistry current issue M. Kotaka 2009
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Moreover, computational docking suggested that the substrate-binding channel binds a polyene substrate that contains a single cis double bond at the C4 / C5 position, raising the possibility that the C4 = C5 double bond in the enediyne moiety could be generated by the iterative polyketide synthase.
Journal of Biological Chemistry current issue M. Kotaka 2009
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Activity polyene antifungal antibiotics Geotrichum strains
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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