carboxylate
carboxylate
Definition
car·boxyl·ate (kär bäks′ə lāt′)
noun
a salt or ester of a carboxylic acid
transitive verb -·at′ed, -·at′·ing
to form a carboxylic acid by introducing a carboxyl group into (a compound)
car·box′yla′·tion noun
carboxylate
Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- oxygen: However, we have not found any hydrogen bonds to the other carboxylate oxygen or the pyridine nitrogen.
- group: The figure shows the dimer of molecules linked through the hydrogen bonded carboxylate groups.
- atom: For example, for Glu, the CB and CG carbon atoms are considered, but not the carboxylate CD atom.
- ligand: Template formation of the macrocycle on iron ions in the presence of carboxylate ligands results in a trinuclear complex ( Figure 5 ).
Noun used with modifier
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