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carboxylate Definition

car·boxyl·ate (kär bäksə 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)

carboxylate Related Forms
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

  • protein: The model of protein carboxylate - hydroxyapatite surface binding proposed from our recent work.
  • sodium: Adding an acid such as hydrochloric acid or sulphuric acid to the sodium carboxylate would free the carboxylic acid.