A chemical radical or group derived from camphor, used in naming organic compounds and chemical reactions.
From camphor plus the suffix -oyl, which indicates an acyl group attached to a carbon atom. This nomenclature term came from 19th-century organic chemistry's need to describe molecular fragments.
The -oyl suffix is chemistry's way of pointing at a molecule's 'handle'—the part that reaches out to grab other molecules—making camphoroyl essential for describing how camphor fragments link into new compounds.
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