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Chemistry · Glossary

What is Carbenoids?

Also known as: carbenoid

Definition 27.9 University Chemistry — Year 3 · Chapter 27 — Radicals, Carbenes and Rearrangements

A carbenoid is a metal-bound species that transfers a carbene group as a free carbene would, without the free carbene being formed, such as the iodomethylzinc iodide ICHX2ZnI\ce{ICH2ZnI} of the Simmons–Smith reaction.

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