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Chemistry · Glossary

What is Orthogonal protection?

Also known as: orthogonal protecting groups

Definition 28.7 University Chemistry — Year 2 · Chapter 28 — Retrosynthesis and Multistep Strategy

A set of orthogonal protecting groups is a set of protecting groups each removable by conditions that leave all the others intact, so that the functions they mask can be released one at a time, in any order.

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