corrin

See also: Corrin and corrín

English

Noun

corrin (plural corrins)

1. (organic chemistry) A molecular species that contains four reduced pyrrole rings joined in a macrocycle by three -CH= groups and one direct bond; central to the cobalt-containing vitamin cobalamin.
   • 1998, Georgina Ferry, Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life:

     But the result showed unequivocally that the vitamin contained a ring system unlike any that had been seen before (it was later given the name ‘corrin’).

Translations

organic compound

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 咕啉 (gu¹ lam⁴)

  Mandarin: 咕啉 (gūlín)

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• Japanese: コリン (korin)
• Korean: 코린 (korin)

See also

• corrole
• porphyrin

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Verb

corrin