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bay: a standalone construct

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Organic chemistry

the concave inner notch on the perimeter of a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, where outer rings turn back toward each other.

In organic chemistry the bay region is the concave inner notch on the perimeter of a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, the hindered angle formed where the outer rings turn back toward each other, named by analogy to the inward curve of a coastal bay. Lehr, Jerina, and colleagues set out the bay region theory (developed from the mid 1970s and stated in full by 1985), which holds that diol epoxides formed at the bay region are the especially reactive metabolites that make some of these hydrocarbons carcinogenic. The referent is a defined geometric position on a molecule and the reactivity assigned to it, and it is distinct from a bay of water, the bay laurel, or a structural bay in a building.[1]

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A concave region on a PAH perimeter, defined by ring geometry
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Located from molecular structure and probed by the reactivity of bay-region diol epoxides

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References

  1. Lehr, R. E., Kumar, S., Levin, W., Wood, A. W., Chang, R. L., Conney, A. H., Yagi, H., Sayer, J. M., & Jerina, D. M. (1985). The bay region theory of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon carcinogenesis. In R. G. Harvey (Ed.), Polycyclic Hydrocarbons and Carcinogenesis (ACS Symposium Series, Vol. 283, pp. 63–84). Washington, DC: American Chemical Society. https://doi.org/10.1021/bk-1985-0283.ch004

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