Top 10 similar words or synonyms for disulfide

disulphide    0.881014

disulfides    0.710441

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cysteine    0.652559

thioether    0.637273

amide    0.634238

intramolecular    0.632363

dimer    0.623900

thiol    0.586288

interchain    0.581810

Top 30 analogous words or synonyms for disulfide

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Disulfide In chemistry, a disulfide refers to a functional group with the structure R–S–S–R'. The linkage is also called an SS-bond or sometimes a disulfide bridge and is usually derived by the coupling of two thiol groups. The connection is a persulfide, in analogy to its congener, peroxide (R–O–O–R'), but this terminology is rarely used, except in reference to hydrodisulfides (R–S–S–H or H–S–S–H compounds).
Disulfide Disulfides where the two R groups are the same are called symmetric, examples being diphenyl disulfide and dimethyl disulfide. When the two R groups are not identical, the compound is said to be an asymmetric or mixed disulfide.
Disulfide Disulfide bonds are usually formed from the oxidation of sulfhydryl (–SH) groups, especially in biological contexts. The transformation is depicted as follows:
Disulfide A variety of oxidants promote this reaction including air and hydrogen peroxide. Such reactions are thought to proceed via sulfenic acid intermediates. In the laboratory, iodine in the presence of base is commonly employed to oxidize thiols to disulfides. Several metals, such as copper(II) and iron(III) complexes affect this reaction. Alternatively, disulfide bonds in proteins often formed by thiol-disulfide exchange:
Disulfide The above formula is the most general relation which can be used to calculate the number of possible disulfide bond isomers (or connectivities) when "n" is either even or odd, and when all or only some of the cysteines are involved in the formation of disulfide bonds.