Quaternary Ammonium Compounds
"Quaternary Ammonium Compounds" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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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.
| Descriptor ID |
D000644
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D01.625.062.500 D02.092.877 D02.675.276
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