debenzylate

de- +‎ benzyl +‎ -ate

debenzylate (third-person singular simple present debenzylates, present participle debenzylating, simple past and past participle debenzylated)

1. (organic chemistry, transitive) To remove one or more benzyl groups from.
   • 2015 August 5, Abbas El Sahili et al., “A Pyranose-2-Phosphate Motif Is Responsible for Both Antibiotic Import and Quorum-Sensing Regulation in Agrobacterium tumefaciens”, in PLoS Pathogens‎, volume 11, →DOI:

     This method described by Sinaÿ et al. can only debenzylate the α-isomer of 20 and led to compound 21 which was then phosphorylated using the dibenzyl phosphoramidite and subsequently oxidized to compound 22.