spirocyclooctane

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Etymology[edit]

spiro- +‎ cyclooctane

Noun[edit]

spirocyclooctane (plural spirocyclooctanes)

  1. (chemistry) A divalent radical in which a cyclooctane ring is fused to another ring at a single carbon atom, the two rings being more or less at right angles to one another.

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