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Cyclopropane vs Spirocyclopropane - What's the difference?

cyclopropane | spirocyclopropane |

As nouns the difference between cyclopropane and spirocyclopropane

is that cyclopropane is the simplest alicyclic hydrocarbon, C3H6, an inflammable gas, sometimes used as an anaesthetic while spirocyclopropane is a divalent radical in which a cyclopropane ring is fused to another ring at a single carbon atom, the two rings being more-or-less at right angles to one another.

cyclopropane

Noun

  • (organic compound, pharmaceutical drug) The simplest alicyclic hydrocarbon, C3H6, an inflammable gas, sometimes used as an anaesthetic.
  • Derived terms

    * titanacyclopropane

    spirocyclopropane

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chemistry) A divalent radical in which a cyclopropane ring is fused to another ring at a single carbon atom, the two rings being more-or-less at right angles to one another
  • See also

    * on Wikipedia