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🧪 With amide group 🔬 To add amide group ⚡ A negative ion
to amidate

to amidate

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To add an amide group to a molecule
  • verb
  • /əˈmɪdeɪt/
  • Specialized
: amidar
  • The laboratory procedure was designed to amidate the compound efficiently.

Examples

  • The chemist will amidate the compound carefully.

  • Enzymes that amidate proteins play a key role in many biological processes.

  • Scientists can amidate peptides to change their chemical properties.

  • To create the desired product, we need to amidate the substrate.

  • The chemist used a special reagent to amidate the compound, creating a new drug formulation.

  • Scientists worked to amidate the substrate in order to enhance its biological activity.

  • To improve the solubility of the molecule, the researchers decided to amidate it during the synthesis process.

Surface Forms

amidate infinitive
amidated past
amidated past participle
amidating present participle
amidates third person singular

Morphology

amidate = amide (transparent) = amide + ate

The verb is formed by the productive chemical/derivational use of '-ate' meaning 'to make or treat with', applied to 'amide'.

Etymology

Amidate as a verb is formed from amide plus the action ending -ate, like in activate, and it simply means 'to make into an amide' or 'to add an amide group'.