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The reported compounds in question are NiII-coordinated norcorroles with modified aryl moieties as side chains.

From Science Daily • May 23, 2024

"Designing new vaccines that utilize nanoparticles with specific chemical moieties which not only aid in antigen delivery but can also activate particular immune pathways have the potential to enhance vaccine potency."

From Science Daily • Mar. 6, 2024

Molecules with F-H, O-H, or N-H moieties are very strongly attracted to similar moieties in nearby molecules, a particularly strong type of dipole-dipole attraction called hydrogen bonding.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

From a highly disordered background, moieties resembling PF6 units emerged.

From Nature • Mar. 28, 2017

The forty-second Congress, at its second session, repealed all laws which provided for the payment of moieties, or commissions, to informers, so far as related to internal revenue taxes.

From Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by Hoar, George Frisbie