carboxyl
containing the carboxyl group.
Origin of carboxyl
1Other words from carboxyl
- car·box·yl·ic, adjective
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How to use carboxyl in a sentence
It is probable that tetrahydro acids are first formed, which suffer rearrangement to orthoketone carboxylic acids.
Potassium permanganate oxidizes it first to methylfurazane-carboxylic acid and then to furazanedicarboxylic acid.
Oxycinnolin carboxylic acid on heating gives oxycinnolin, melting at 225, which with phosphorus pentachloride gives chlorcinnolin.
It is apparently a tropidine monocarboxylic acid, for on exhaustive methylation it yields cycloheptatriene-135-carboxylic acid-7.
These organic betanes are internal anhydrides of carboxylic acids, which contain an ammonium hydroxide group in the α-position.
Scientific definitions for carboxyl
[ kär-bŏk′səl ]
The radical COOH, characteristic of all carboxylic acids.
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