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diazoacetate

diazoacetate noun: any salt or ester of diazoacetic acid; the esters react with alkenes to form cyclopropane derivatives.

Noun

diazoacetate (plural diazoacetates)

  1. Any salt or ester of diazoacetic acid; the esters react with alkenes to form cyclopropane derivatives
    • Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich
      Considering the range of chiral catalysts that are available for diazoacetate decomposition, the development of reaction conditions for asymmetric vinylcarbenoid cyclopropanations had initially been considered to be relatively...

Forms of diazoacetate

pluraldiazoacetates

Origin of diazoacetate

From diazoacetic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).

Questions about diazoacetate

What does diazoacetate mean?
Diazoacetate means any salt or ester of diazoacetic acid; the esters react with alkenes to form cyclopropane derivatives.
What part of speech is diazoacetate?
Diazoacetate is a noun.
What is the plural of diazoacetate?
The plural of diazoacetate is diazoacetates.

Words near diazoacetate in the dictionary

  1. diazo
  2. diazo compound
  3. diazo compounds
  4. diazo reaction
  5. diazo reactions
  6. diazoacetate
  7. diazoacetates
  8. diazoacetic
  9. diazoacetic acid
  10. diazoacetoacetate
  11. diazoacetoacetates

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