Onium Compounds
"Onium Compounds" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Ions with the suffix -onium, indicating cations with coordination number 4 of the type RxA+ which are analogous to QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS (H4N+). Ions include phosphonium R4P+, oxonium R3O+, sulfonium R3S+, chloronium R2Cl+
| Descriptor ID |
D009861
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.675
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