A prefix used in names to designate a ring structure, usually italicized in inorganic, but not in organic nomenclature. Examples:
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Sources: Blue Book, p. 497 (https://www.acdlabs.com/iupac/nomenclature/) Red Book, 3rd ed., p. 245 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2014-0718)
See also: Blue Book Guide, p. 30 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac199971071327)
The prefix for an elementary reaction or some part thereof indicating that the bonds undergoing primitive changes form part of a ring in the transition state of a pericyclic process.
Source: PAC, 1989, 61, 23. 'System for symbolic representation of reaction mechanisms (Recommendations 1988)' on page 34 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac198961010023)