noun
- Plural of amidin; organic compounds containing the amidin functional group (C=NH bonded to nitrogen), used in chemistry and biochemistry.
Usage: technical; chemistry
Examples
- Amidins are important intermediates in organic synthesis.
- The researcher studied the reactivity of various amidins in the laboratory.
- Amidins can be formed through the condensation of nitriles with amines.
- These amidins exhibited interesting properties in the spectroscopic analysis.