prototropy

noun

pro·tot·ro·py | \ prō-ˈtä-trə-pē

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plural prototropies

Medical Definition of prototropy

: tautomerism involving the migration of a proton especially to a location three atoms distant in an organic molecule — compare anionotropy, cationotropy

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