monochlorinated

English

Etymology

mono- +‎ chlorinated

Adjective

monochlorinated (not comparable)

1. chlorinated with a single atom of chlorine
   • 2015 July 30, “Expanding the Described Metabolome of the Marine Cyanobacterium Moorea producens JHB through Orthogonal Natural Products Workflows”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     For example, the monochlorinated analog of 1, hectochlorin C ( 6 ), is likely produced by a process wherein the chlorination enzyme fails to catalyze the addition of a second chlorine atom to the substrate, and this modification is transparent to subsequent downstream biosynthetic steps.