the anhydride of phthalic acid (see sense 1b), a white bicyclic crystalline solid, C6H4(CO)2O, which is made industrially by the catalytic…

Any compound consisting of glycerol esterified at only one of its hydroxyl groups.

In trimellitic acid, a colourless compound, C6H3(COOH)3, unsymmetrical benzene-tricarboxylic acid, obtained by the oxidation of colophony by…

a crystalline acid derived from α-picoline by oxidation of the methyl group; pyridine-2-carboxylic acid, (HOOC)C5H4N.

a colourless liquid, CH2(SH)·COOH, that is a strong reducing agent used as a reagent for detecting ferric iron.

C23H47.CO2H, a crystalline powder, very soluble in hot alcohol, occurring in the soap got by heating carnaüba wax with aqueous NaOH.

any of the esterified derivatives of glycerol phosphate in which the hydrogen atoms of both hydroxyl groups are replaced by fatty acid groups.

any acyl or related derivative of a neuraminic acid.

any of the sulphur-containing acids with the formula S—S—CH2(CH 2)xCH(CH2)5− xCOOH, where x = 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5; spec. 6,8-dithio-n-octanoic acid (x…