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Definition of Carboxylation

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Carboxylation

1. Addition of CO2 to an organic acceptor, as in formation of malonyl-CoA or in photosynthesis, to yield a -COOH group; catalyzed by carboxylases. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Carboxylation

Literary usage of Carboxylation

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 (1879)
"The Possible Role of Protonated Carbonic Acid in Biological carboxylation Processes George A. Olah and Anthony M. White2 Contribution from the Department of ..."

2. Coal Gas Residuals by Frederick Henry Wagner (1918)
"carboxylation: This process consists of introducing the acid carboxyl group, ... As an example, the carboxylation of phenol produces salicylic acid. 11. ..."

3. Report by British Association for the Advancement of Science (1888)
"On fusion with potash phenyl sulphonic acid yields phenol, while benzoic acid yields a little phenol, but chiefly by a further action of carboxylation ..."

4. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1921)
"This de- carboxylation of amino-acids seems to be a general reaction of a good many putrefactive organisms. As examples of such changes it may be mentioned ..."

5. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"carboxylation leads to similar tendencies. Many other salvarsan. derivatives have been prepared and examined. ..."

6. Physiological chemistry: A Text-book and Manual for Students by Albert Prescott Mathews (1916)
"... in the feces, it is probable that there is a preliminary de- carboxylation, with the formation of a thio-ethyl aminé as an intermediate product: ..."

7. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1888)
"Although the amines produced by de- carboxylation of ornithine, lysine, arginine and histidine, namely putrescine, cadaverine, agmatine and histamine, ..."

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