desacetyl

English

Noun

desacetyl (plural desacetyls)

1. Any compound that has undergone deacetylation.
   • 2000, M.J. Weinstein, ‎G.H. Wagman, Chromatography of Antibiotics, page 89:

     Cephalosporin derivatives and their desacetyls and lactones moved; however, cephalosporin C itself and its desacetyl and lactone derivatives failed to move in this system.