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⚗️ To add carboxyl group 🧪 A negative ion
to carboxylate

to carboxylate

9.9
To add a carboxyl group to a molecule
  • verb
  • /kɑrˈbɑksɪˌleɪt/
  • Specialized
translation icon : carboxilar
  • The chemist decided to carboxylate the compound to enhance its reactivity.

Examples

  • In humans, osteocalcin is incompletely carboxylated and therefore circulates in both a fully carboxylated and undercarboxylated or uncarboxylated form (21).

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  • So even among what you would consider regular plants, there's an extra carboxylating step in auditrophy where there can be in in many plants.

  • And the leaving group notices a fairly good ANI and carboxylate, right?

  • Researchers need to carboxylate the molecules in order to study their functional properties.

  • To improve the solubility of the drug, scientists will carboxylate it during the synthesis process.

Surface Forms

carboxylate infinitive
carboxylated past
carboxylated past participle
carboxylating present participle
carboxylates third person singular

Morphology

carboxylate = carboxyl (transparent) = carboxyl + ate

Formed by adding the regular chemical suffix '-ate' to the recognized chemical noun 'carboxyl', so the meaning is directly derived though it is specialized technical vocabulary.

Etymology

Carboxylate comes from the part carboxyl (made from 'carbon' + 'oxygen') and the ending -ate, a common chemical ending that marks a change. So to carboxylate something is to give it a 'carboxyl' part — in other words, to add that small acid group to a molecule.