oxymercuration (English, noun)
expansion: oxymercuration (countable and uncountable, plural oxymercurations)
Senses:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An addition reaction in which the elements of water are added across an alkene's double bond to form an alcohol; the reaction proceeds via the addition of mercuric acetate, the mercuric group being removed by reduction
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: oxymercurations
tags: plural