spirocyclopropane

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spiro- +‎ cyclopropane

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spirocyclopropane (plural spirocyclopropanes)

  1. (organic 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

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