Abgangsgruppe

English translation: leaving group

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German term or phrase:Abgangsgruppe
English translation:leaving group
Entered by: Brie Vernier

12:33 Nov 19, 2005
German to English translations [PRO]
Science - Chemistry; Chem Sci/Eng
German term or phrase: Abgangsgruppe
The word comes from a part of the text dealing with chemical groups appropriate for yielding salts.

Example: Eine geeignete Abgangsgruppe Y ist beispielsweise eine Gruppe, die zusammen mit der Sulfinylgruppe, an die sie gebunden ist, ein reaktives Sulfinsäurederivat bildet.
SpreeSarah
United States
Local time: 08:57
leaving group
Explanation:
says Kucera's WB der Chemie for "abgehende Gruppe"

see e.g. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&d...
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Brie Vernier
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Local time: 13:57
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3 +2leaving group
Brie Vernier
4Group of outlets
diharisiadis
4nucleofuge
John Owen


  

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leaving group


Explanation:
says Kucera's WB der Chemie for "abgehende Gruppe"

see e.g. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&d...

Brie Vernier
Germany
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Tracy Livesey: abgangsgruppe is a leaving group, charged or uncharged, nucleofuge is a leaving group leaving with a pair of electrons, see http://www.chemicool.com/definition/nucleofuge.html and http://www.chemicool.com/definition/leaving_group.html
7 hrs
  -> Thanks, Tracy

agree  Gillian Scheibelein
1 day 4 hrs
  -> Thanks, Gillian
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14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Group of outlets


Explanation:
group of elements or substances to be let out or given off

diharisiadis
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nucleofuge


Explanation:
Also known as leaving group:
"and the leaving group (the nucleofuge) comes away with the electron pair ..."
www.freepatentsonline.com/6953679.html

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Note added at 25 mins (2005-11-19 12:58:05 GMT)
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It's also the translation given in Wenske's Dictionary of Chemistry

John Owen
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Brie Vernier: also included in Kucera's WB der Chemie, but Google the two and compare
23 mins
  -> There's no reason why both shouldn't be used - as in the cited US patent.
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