1. Organic compounds containing a peroxide group (O-O bond) within a ring structure; commonly found in natural products and used in organic synthesis and pharmaceutical research.
Usage: technical; chemistry; plural form of endoperoxide

Examples

• Endoperoxides are important intermediates in the biosynthesis of certain antimalarial compounds.
• The chemist synthesized several endoperoxides to test their reactivity in the laboratory.
• Artemisinin-derived endoperoxides have shown significant therapeutic potential against malaria parasites.
• Researchers studied the stability of endoperoxides under various temperature and pH conditions.
• The formation of endoperoxides in this reaction was confirmed by mass spectrometry.