CH activation

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CH activation (countable and uncountable, plural CH activations)

  1. (organic chemistry) Any of a wide range of techniques, often using catalysts, in which a carbon to hydrogen covalent bond of an organic compound is made to cleave in order to replace the hydrogen with a functional group.