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noun
Bringing together, integration, or coparticipation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
Bringing together, integration, or coparticipation.
Specifically, the bringing together of reactants into the exact relative spatial arrangement and proximity most formative of chemical reactions. The term encompasses both neighboring group effects and catalysis by transition metal complexes, enzymes, or other molecules.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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History
From Ancient Greek σῠμφέρω (sŭmphérō, “bring together”). The chemistry sense was coined by Robert Thornton Morrison and Robert Neilson Boyd in the 5th (1987) edition of Organic Chemistry.
