labilize

English

Alternative forms

• labilise

Etymology

labile +‎ -ize

Verb

labilize (third-person singular simple present labilizes, present participle labilizing, simple past and past participle labilized)

1. (chemistry, transitive, intransitive) To make or become labile (i.e. unstable).
   • 1915, Oscar Loew, Chemical Abstracts‎^[1], volume 9, number 2, Notes on the mechanism of biological oxidation processes, page 1488:

     L. regards the oxidative processes of the body as taking place not as a result of activated O, but rather by means of "labilized" H atoms of the proteins of the cells so that they react readily with mol. O₂.

   • 1990, Stephen Kuby, A Study of Enzymes, volume 2, →ISBN, page 147:

     […] in order to labilize the glycosidic bond.

   • 2014, Robert H. Crabtree, The Organometallic Chemistry of the Transition Metals, →ISBN, page 41:

     High trans effect ligands such as H or CO labilize ligands that are trans to themselves.