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in photochemistry
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Term used in photostimulated radical nucleophilic substitution to designate the induction of the reaction of a less reactive (or non-reactive) nucleophile with a substrate by the addition of catalytic amounts of another nucleophile, more reactive at @[email protected] Often, the non-reactive nucleophile at @[email protected] is, however, quite reactive at @[email protected]
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Term also used in @[email protected] in connection with the setting of the circadian clock by biological photosensors such as phytochromes and cryptochromes in plants and cryptochromes in mammals and insects.
Source:
PAC, 2007, 79, 293. (Glossary of terms used in photochemistry, 3rd edition (IUPAC Recommendations 2006)) on page 335 [Terms] [Paper]