antielimination

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ elimination

Noun

antielimination (uncountable)

1. (organic chemistry) elimination of substituents from opposite sides of a double bond
   • 1976, Michael R. J. Dack, Solutions and solubilities (volume 8, part 2, page 177)

     Antielimination occurs in both solvents […]

   • 1995, Alan Roy Katritzky, Otto Meth-Cohn, Stanley Michael Roberts, Comprehensive organic functional group transformations, page 490:

     These arise through re-addition of the initially formed palladium hydride and subsequent antielimination of the trimethylsilyl and palladium moieties.