Crossword clues for carboxyl
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context organic chemistry English) A univalent functional group consisting of a carbonyl and a hydroxyl functional group (-COOH); characteristic of carboxylic acids.
WordNet
n. the univalent radical -COOH; present in and characteristic of organic acids [syn: carboxyl group]
adj. relating to or containing the carboxyl group or carboxyl radical [syn: carboxylic]
Usage examples of "carboxyl".
That fifth carbon forms part of a carboxyl group (-COOH), and it is the acid property of this carboxyl group that gives the bile acids their name.
Each of these bile acids can be combined at the carboxyl group to a molecule of the amino acid, glycine, or to a sulfur-containing compound called "taurine.
The steroids in digitalis are something like the bile acids in structure except that the carboxyl group on the side-chain combines with another portion of the chain to form a fifth ring that is not part of the four-ring steroid nucleus.
One example of these, a compound with a molecule composed of a chain of 12 carbon atoms, with a carboxyl group (-COOH) at each end and a double bond between carbon-2 and carbon-3, is called traumatic acid (troh-mafik.
Actually, THC acid and the other necessary cannabinoid acids are not psychoactive until they decarboxylate (lose an acidic carboxyl group [COOHI).
Consisting of a straight chain of carbon atoms, with hydrogen atoms along its length, and a carboxyl growth at one end, Oleic acid is the most widely distributed example of which lipid component?