Acyl

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Acyl \Ac"yl\, n. [Acid + -yl.] (Org. Chem.)
     An acid radical, as acetyl, malonyl, or benzoyl. An acyl
     radical can be depicted as {R-CO-}, where {-CO-} is the
     carbonyl group, and R is the group that characterizes the
     acyl moiety.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  acyl
       n : any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic
           group; "an example of the acyl group is the acetyl group"
           [syn: {acyl group}]