monoester
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌmɒnəʊˈɛstə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmɑnoʊˌɛstɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ) (some accents)
- Hyphenation: mon‧o‧es‧ter
Noun edit
monoester (plural monoesters)
- (organic chemistry) An ester of a polyhydric alcohol or a polycarboxylic acid containing only a single ester group.
- 1905, “Progress in Pharmacy”, in The American Journal of Pharmacy, page 287:
- Frederick B. Power and Frank Tutin have experimentally confirmed the observations of Carré, that at temperatures above 110° the interaction between phosphoric acid and glycerole results in the production of varying amounts of diester accompanying the monoester or glycerophosphoric acid.
- 2016 May 22, Qixun Shi et al., “Water-soluble cavitands promote hydrolyses of long-chain diesters”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America[1], volume 113, number 33, , page 9199:
- For example, hydrolysis of diesters (Fig. 1) separated by a long methylene chain exhibits equal rate constants at each site (k1 = k2), which sets an upper limit of 36.8% for the yield of the monoester.
- 2018 February 14, “Ketone drink could help diabetics by lowering blood sugar”, in Voxy.co.nz[2]:
- Twenty healthy individuals participated in the study and on two occasions consumed the ketone monoester supplement or a placebo after a 10-hour fast.