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What does allylic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (organic chemistry) Containing an allyl group, an alkene hydrocarbon group with the formula H2C=CH-CH2-
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The positions allylic to double bonds are especially susceptible to oxidation.
Deshpande developed polymers with allylic or benzylic amide groups covalently bonded to the polymer molecules.
Alkenes in general are known to undergo addition reactions at lower temperatures and allylic substitution at higher temperatures.
An example that Blackmond often uses is the asymmetric hydrogenation of the allylic alcohols geraniol and its isomers carried out while she was at Merck.
Many different allylic pyrophosphates are effective initiators, but FPP seems to be the one primarily used in vivo.
In complementary experiments, CHD and CHDCA were used as models for LA as they also have double allylic systems.

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