hydroxylating

Variant of hydroxylate

hydroxylate definition

hy·droxyl·ate (hī dräks′il āt′)

transitive verb hydroxylated -·at′ed, hydroxylating -·at′·ing

to introduce the hydroxyl group into (a compound)

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