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Quaternary Ammonium Compounds

"Quaternary Ammonium Compounds" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Derivatives of ammonium compounds, NH4+ Y-, in which all four of the hydrogens bonded to nitrogen have been replaced with hydrocarbyl groups. These are distinguished from IMINES which are RN=CR2.


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Bar chart showing 28 publications over 16 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2001 and 2006 and 2008 and 2011
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