[1905–10; cycle + -ize]This word is first recorded in the period 1905–10. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: aspect ratio, jazz, overcall, push-up, stabilizer-ize is a verb-forming suffix occurring originally in loanwords from Greek that have enteredEnglish through Latin or French (baptize; barbarize; catechize); within English, -ize is added to adjectives and nouns to form transitive verbs with the general senses“to render, make” (actualize; fossilize; sterilize; Americanize), “to convert into, give a specified character or form to” (computerize; dramatize; itemize; motorize), “to subject to (as a process, sometimes named after its originator)” (hospitalize; terrorize; galvanize; oxidize; simonize; winterize). Also formed with -ize are a more heterogeneous group of verbs, usually intransitive, denoting a changeof state (crystallize), kinds or instances of behavior (apologize; moralize; tyrannize), or activities (economize; philosophize; theorize)
Examples of 'cyclize' in a sentence
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Attempts to cyclize 2 to give the corresponding fused pyrazolopyridines 9 failed.
Mohamed Hilmy Elnagdi, Mariam Abdullah Al-Sheikh 2009, 'Studies with Azinylacetonitriles: 2-Pyridylacetonitrile as a Precursor to FunctionallySubstituted Pyridines', Moleculeshttp://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/14/11/4406/. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
It has been found that synthesized vicinal halo amides can easily cyclize in alkaline conditions to give 1-sulfonylaziridines.
Larysa V. Dmitrikova, Svetlana D. Kopteva, Victor I. Markov 2016, 'N-Alkylation of sulfonamides by alkyl halides in the presence of electrophilic catalystsand transformations of alkylated compounds', Vìsnik Dnìpropetrovsʹkogo Unìversitetu: Serìâ Hìmìâhttp://chemistry.dnu.dp.ua/article/view/77519. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The liberated thiols were able to cyclize to the corresponding benzothiazolyl derivatives only after acidification of the reaction mixture.
Spyridon Mourtas, Panayiota Christodoulou, Pavlos Klepetsanis, Dimitrios Gatos, KleomenisBarlos, Sophia G. Antimisiaris 2019, 'Preparation of Benzothiazolyl-Decorated Nanoliposomes', Moleculeshttps://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/24/8/1540. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)