bisallylic etymology

English word bisallylic comes from English bis-, English allylic

Detailed word origin of bisallylic

Dictionary entryLanguageDefinition
bis- English (eng) (chemistry, obsolete) A variant of tri- used to indicate that the component that does not take the prefix occurs twice in the compound: a bisoxide is of the form B2O. (mathematics, chemistry) A variant of di-, used for substitutions of two complex rather than simple units.. An occasional variant of bi- prefixed to roots beginning with a vowel, as in bisalternate.
allylic English (eng) (organic chemistry) Containing an allyl group, an alkene hydrocarbon group with the formula H2C=CH-CH2-.
bisallylic English (eng) (organic chemistry) Having two allene groups.

Words with the same origin as bisallylic

Descendants of bis-
bisacridine bisacrylamide bisadduct bisallene bisammonium bisanthrapyrazole bisarylated bisazene bisdigitoxoside biselectrophilic bisenolate bishydroxamic bisintercalating bisintercalator bisligand bismetallated bisoxazoline bisphenol bisphosphate bisphosphine bisporphyrin bisthiourea bisurea cyclobisintercalator