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Definition of Pentanoic acid
1. Noun. A clear liquid carboxylic acid used in perfumes and drugs.
Definition of Pentanoic acid
1. Noun. (organic compound) valeric acid ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Pentanoic acid
1. CH3(CH2)3COOH;normal aliphatic acid; distilled from valerian; some of its salts are used in medicine; found in human colon. Synonym: pentanoic acid. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pentanoic Acid
Literary usage of Pentanoic acid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1901)
"... CH/ (methyl-4-pentanoic acid).—The only method of preparing isoamyl cyanide
given by Beilstein, is from isoamyl chloride. The use of the bromide gives, ..."
2. Technology Quarterly and Proceedings of the Society of Arts by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Society of Arts (1892)
"... be named by the first method 3'methyl-pentanoic-acid. This name should evidently
be reserved for the acid derived from the normal acid by substituting a ..."
3. Treatise on General and Industrial Organic Chemistry by Ettore Molinari (1921)
"... acid, pentanoic acid, etc. >0 \ — CO,H, te, —C^ ), and thus we have
methanoic (formic) acid, ethanoic (acetic) For the unsaturated doubly linked ..."
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