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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SUBSTITUENT

From Latin substituere to substitute.
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PRONUNCIATION OF SUBSTITUENT

substituent  [sʌbˈstɪtjʊənt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SUBSTITUENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Substituent can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES SUBSTITUENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Substituent

In organic chemistry and biochemistry, a substituent is an atom or group of atoms substituted in place of a hydrogen atom on the parent chain of a hydrocarbon. The terms substituent, side-chain, group, branch, or pendant group are used almost interchangeably to describe branches from a parent structure, though certain distinctions are made in the context of polymer chemistry. In polymers, side chains extend from a backbone structure. In proteins, side chains are attached to the alpha carbon atoms of the amino acid backbone. The suffix yl is used when naming organic compounds that contain a single bond replacing one hydrogen; -ylidene and -ylidyne are used with double bonds and triple bonds, respectively. In addition, when naming hydrocarbons that contain a substituent, positional numbers are used to indicate which carbon atom the substituent attaches to when such information is needed to distinguish between isomers. The polar effect exerted by a substituent is a combination of the inductive effect and the mesomeric effect. Additional steric effects result from the volume occupied by a substituent.

Definition of substituent in the English dictionary

The definition of substituent in the dictionary is an atom or group that replaces another atom or group in a molecule or can be regarded as replacing an atom in a parent compound. Other definition of substituent is substituted or substitutable.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SUBSTITUENT


abluent
ˈæblʊənt
affluent
ˈæflʊənt
attenuant
əˈtɛnjʊənt
confluent
ˈkɒnflʊənt
congruent
ˈkɒŋɡrʊənt
constituent
kənˈstɪtjʊənt
continuant
kənˈtɪnjʊənt
diffluent
ˈdɪflʊənt
diluent
ˈdɪljʊənt
effluent
ˈɛflʊənt
evacuant
ɪˈvækjʊənt
fluctuant
ˈflʌktjʊənt
incongruent
ɪnˈkɒŋɡrʊənt
influent
ˈɪnflʊənt
interfluent
ɪnˈtɜːflʊənt
issuant
ˈɪʃjʊənt
mellifluent
mɪˈlɪflʊənt
obstruent
ˈɒbstrʊənt
reconstituent
ˌriːkənˈstɪtjʊənt
refluent
ˈrɛflʊənt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SUBSTITUENT

substantivisation
substantivise
substantivity
substantivization
substantivize
substate
substation
substellar
substernal
substitutability
substitutable
substitute
substitute teacher
substitution
substitution instance
substitutional
substitutionary
substitutive
substitutively
substitutivity

WORDS THAT END LIKE SUBSTITUENT

attuent
consequent
delinquent
eloquent
eluent
fluent
frequent
grandiloquent
immediate constituent
inconsequent
infrequent
juvenile delinquent
magniloquent
mass affluent
sequent
subsequent
suent
ultimate constituent
unfrequent
unguent

Synonyms and antonyms of substituent in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «substituent» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SUBSTITUENT

Find out the translation of substituent to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of substituent from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «substituent» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

取代
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sustituyente
570 millions of speakers

English

substituent
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

substituent
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المستبدلة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

заместитель
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

substituinte
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

substituent
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

substituant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Substituen
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Substituenten
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

置換基
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

치환기
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Substituent
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nhóm thế
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பதிலி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पर्यायी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ikame
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sostituente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

podstawnik
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

заступник
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

substituent
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υποκατάστατο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

substituent
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

substituenten
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

substituent
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of substituent

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SUBSTITUENT»

The term «substituent» is quite widely used and occupies the 47.883 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SUBSTITUENT» OVER TIME

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUBSTITUENT»

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Substituent Effects in Radical Chemistry
'This book as a top level scientific kaleidoscope is recommended to all organic chemists and related researchers who wish to know and apply the results of the modern radical chemistry.
Heinz G. Viehe, Zdenek Janousek, Robert Merényi, 1986
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Advanced Organic Chemistry: Part A: Structure and Mechanisms
CHAPTER 3 Structural Effects on Stability and Reactivity In general, the dissection of substituent effects need not be limited to the resonance and polar components that are of special prominence in reactions of aromatic compounds. Any type ...
Francis A. Carey, Richard J. Sundberg, 2007
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"Breaking Down the Substituent of the Future": Environmental ...
The pentafluorosulfanyl (SF5) functional group was investigated from an environmental perspective to ascertain its physical properties and photolytic fate.
Derek Andrew Jackson, 2008
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Introduction to Liquid Crystals: Chemistry and Physics
In general, the depression of TN-I by a lateral substituent is directly proportional to the size of the substituent irrespective of its polarity. However, the depression of smectic phase stability by a lateral substituent can be partially countered if the  ...
Peter J. Collings, Michael Hird, 1997
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Progress in Physical Organic Chemistry
united atom substituent. It seems abundantly clear for this very special class of substituent that both the inductive and resonance effect parameters a, and of are directly controlled by the effective nuclear charge of the united atom-like ...
Andrew Streitwieser, Robert W. Taft, 2009
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Substituent Effects on Exchange Coupling: Controlling the ...
As electron-withdrawing, -donating and neutral substituents are placed on the coupler or spin carrier fragment of the biradicals under study, it is shown that there is a substituent effect operating within the series of ferromagnetically ...
Tashni-Ann Coote, 2007
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Analogue-based Drug Discovery II
[64]. original selection of R34-GLP-1(7-37) (acyl substituent: c-Glu-C16) to allow mono- acylation.Thecompounds,potencies,and t1/2 valuesfromthisstudyarepresentedin Table 14.4. It appears that the chain length of the fatty acid affects the ...
Janos Fischer, C. Robin Ganellin, 2010
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Naphthalene Imide and Diimide Substituent Effects on the ...
The naphthalene imides and diimides were functionalized with anionic, cationic, and polyamine substituents to target different DNA nucleotides and sequences.
Sun McMasters, 2005
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A Practical Guide to Scientific Data Analysis
Box. 10.2. The. hydrophobic. substituent. constant,. π. The partition coefficient, P, is defined as the ratio of the concentrations of a compound in the two immiscible phases used in the partitioning system. The custom here is to take the ...
David J. Livingstone, 2009
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Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (QSAR) Models ...
The most widely used quantity for this purpose is the hydrophobic substituent constant (tabulation in Hansch and Leo10), defined for aromatic substituents as: pX = log PX – log PH (1.21) where PX is the partition coefficient of a derivative with ...
Romualdo Benigni, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SUBSTITUENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term substituent is used in the context of the following news items.
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Lorsque des associations se substituent à l'État
Outre les spectacles de musique assurés par de jeunes talents en herbe, des concours et des conférences traitant de différents maux sociaux ont été au menu ... «Liberté-Algérie, Jul 15»
2
Correlation between fragility and cooperativity in segmental …
In this paper, polystyrene (PS) derivatives possessing various para-substituents are studied using calorimetry with regard to the fragility parameter m, dynamic ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
3
A bulky catalyst induces pinpoint targeting on benzene to create …
Using a bulky phosphorus ligand, Itami and his coworkers have generated a new catalyst that uses steric interactions with the benzene substituent, to achieve ... «Phys.Org, Apr 15»
4
Peter BRAUMULLER a fost ales Presedinte Substituent al EIOPA
Consiliul de Supraveghere al Autoritatii Europene pentru Asigurari si Pensii Ocupationale - EIOPA l-a ales in functia de Presedinte Substituent pe Peter ... «1asig.ro - Totul despre asigurari, Jan 15»
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University chemists discover method to create multi-substituted …
Due to the lack of selective methods to install different substituent multi-substituted benzene derivatives, most of the functional hexaarylbenzenes (HABs) are ... «Chemicals Technology, Jan 15»
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A Châteauneuf-les-Martigues, des retraités se substituent aux …
D.R. A Chateauneuf-les-Martigues, des retraités se substituent aux policiers municipaux aux abords des écoles. Découvrez le club. Cet article est paru dans «Gazette des communes, Jan 15»
7
Catylix and Aspira Scientific Launch the First Reagent for …
The Pentafluoroethyl group has been advanced as the "New Substituent of the Future" for bioactive compound development by Catylix. Pentafluoroethylator® ... «PR Newswire, Dec 14»
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Pascal Le Merrer :"Les économistes se substituent au déclin des …
(Crédits : DR) La 7e édition des Journées de l'économie (JECO), à laquelle La Tribune et Acteurs de l'économie sont associés, accueille à Lyon du 13 au 15 ... «Acteurs de l'économie, Nov 14»
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Fluorination Remains Key Challenge in API Synthesis
Due to its high ionization potential, electron affinity, and electronegativity, fluorine is a highly electron withdrawing substituent. In addition, fluorine-carbon bonds ... «Pharmaceutical Technology Magazine, Oct 14»
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Les citoyens se substituent aux pouvoirs publics
L'hiver dernier, plus exactement au mois de février, le chemin menant vers la maison de Cheikh Aheddad, dans le village Seddouk Oufella, a été obstrué suite à ... «La Dépêche de Kabylie, Aug 14»

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