phosphoramidite

English

Etymology

From phosphor +‎ amidite.

Noun

phosphoramidite (plural phosphoramidites)

1. (organic chemistry) Any amidite formally derived from a phosphite; they are used in the synthesis of nucleic acids etc
   • 2005, Philip J. Kocieński, Protecting Groups:

     The resultant phosphoramidite is stable and can be stored in the absence of moisture as a white powder.

   • 2005, R. Dougherty, Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics:

     All the 60-mer length oligonucleotide probes, base-by-base, are printed from digital sequence files and the standard phosphoramidite chemistry used in the reactions allows for high coupling efficiencies . . .