Definition of Monocarboxylic

1. Adjective. Containing one carboxyl group.

Partainyms: Carboxyl

Definition of Monocarboxylic

1. Adjective. (organic chemistry) Having a single carboxyl or carboxylic acid group ¹

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Definition of Monocarboxylic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Monocarboxylic

monobridged
monobromated
monobromide
monobromides
monobromination
monobrow
monobrowed
monobrows
monocalcium
monocaprin
monocarbene
monocarbenes
monocarbonic
monocarboxylate
monocarboxylates
monocarboxylic (current term)
monocardian
monocarp
monocarpellary
monocarpic
monocarpic plant
monocarpous
monocarpous plant
monocarps
monocation
monocations
monocausal
monocellular
monocentric chromosome
monocephalous

Literary usage of Monocarboxylic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Vegetable Alkaloids: With Particular Reference to Their Chemical by Amé Pictet (1904)
"Polycarboxylic acids, heated above their melting- point, are generally converted into monocarboxylic acids. Under these conditions it is usually the ..."

2. The Chemical Constitution of the Proteins by Robert Henry Aders Plimmer (1908)
"A. MONOAMINO-monocarboxylic ACIDS. Glycine. This, the simplest of the products of hydrolysis of the proteins, was also the first to be discovered ; it was ..."

3. The Chemical Constitution of the Proteins by Robert Henry Aders Plimmer (1908)
"A. MONOAMINO-monocarboxylic ACIDS. Glycine. This, the simplest of the products of hydrolysis of the proteins, was also the first to be discovered ; it was ..."

4. Victor Von Richter's Organic Chemistry; Or, Chemistry of the Carbon by Victor von Richter, Richard Anschütz, Georg Schroeter (1900)
"DERIVATIVES OP THE AROMATIC monocarboxylic ACIDS. The derivatives of benzoic acid and its homologues arrange themselves into two groups. ..."

5. Victor Von Richter's Organic Chemistry; Or, Chemistry of the Carbon by Victor von Richter, Richard Anschütz, Georg Schroeter (1900)
"... Review of the Derivatives of the monocarboxylic Acids. — Numerous classes of bodies can be derived by changes in ..."

6. Victor Von Richter's Organic Chemistry; Or, Chemistry of the Carbon by Victor von Richter, Richard Anschütz, Georg Schroeter (1899)
"B. OLEIC ACIDS, OLEFINE monocarboxylic ACIDS, The acids of this series, bearing the name Oleic Acids, because oleic acid belongs to them, differ from the ..."

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