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What is a moiety?

What is a moiety? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Half.
  2. A share or portion.
  3. (chemistry) A specific segment of a molecule.
  4. (anthropology) Each descent group in a culture which is divided exactly into two descent groups.
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However, fluoro-amino acid derivatives have rarely been synthesized because of the inherent instability of the geminally halogenated amine moiety.
A sulfonamide is a chemical entity characterized by a sulfur dioxide and nitrogen moiety directly linked to a benzene ring.
Anhydrous and anhydrate, and the various hydrated forms of the same active moiety are generally considered identical.
The alcohol moiety is exclusively propane-1,2-diol together with dimer and traces of trimer.
Pentoses and tetroses are synthesized from 5-and 4-carbon backbone moieties formed by removing carbon from the 6-carbon arene moiety.
Xanthate anions and protonated xanthic acid contain a free thiol moiety and are highly reductive.

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