What is "glutaric acid"

Glutaric \Glu*tar"ic\, a. [Glutamic + tartaric.] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid so called; as, glutaric ethers.

Glutaric acid, an organic acid obtained as a white crystalline substance, isomeric with pyrotartaric acid; -- called also normal pyrotartaric acid.

n. (context chemistry English) a dicarboxylic acid, HOOC(CH₂)₃COOH, formed during the catabolism of tryptophan

Glutaric acid is the organic compound with the formula CH(COOH) . Although the related "linear" dicarboxylic acids adipic and succinic acids are water-soluble only to a few percent at room temperature, the water-solubility of glutaric acid is over 50% (w/w).