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heterocyclic (notcomparable)

1. (chemistry, of a cyclic compound) Having atoms of two or more differentelements in at least one of its rings.
2. (organic chemistry, of acyclic compound) Having one or moreatoms other thancarbon in at least one of itsrings.
   • 1951, Apollonia Frances Olson, Helen G. Tibbitts,A Study of Head Nurse Activities in a General Hospital, 1950, page163:

     Other highly effectiveheterocyclic substituents were pyrazinyl and quinoxalyl.

• heterocyclical
• carboheterocyclic(organic chemistry)

• non-heterocyclic

• heterocycle

heterocyclic (pluralheterocyclics)

1. (organic chemistry) Aheterocycle

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