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syringic acid

syringic acid noun: a naturally occurring O-methylated trihydroxybenzoic acid found in various plants.

syringic acid: a naturally occurring O-methylated trihydroxybenzoic acid found in various plants
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Noun

syringic acid (uncountable)

  1. A naturally occurring O-methylated trihydroxybenzoic acid found in various plants.
    • Decarboxylation of syringic acid during oxidative coupling has also been observed in the linkage of syringic acid with itself,¹⁰ substituted anilines,¹¹ and 2,4-dichlorophenol.¹²1996, Richard A. Larson, Lina S. Ching, Vernon L. Snoeyink, “Chapter 22. Inhibition of GAC-Induced Phenol Coupling”, in Roger A. Minear, Gary L. Amy, editors, Disinfection By-Products in Water...
    • The conversion of syringic acid has been studied in detail in the white-rot basidiomycete Sporotrichum pulverulentum (an anamorph of P. chrysosporium) (Eriksson, Gupta, Nishida, & Rao, 1984).2015, Miia R. Mäkelä, et al., 2. Aromatic Metabolism of Filamentous Fungi, Sima Sariaslani, Geoffrey Michael Gadd, Advances in Applied Microbiology, Elsevier (Academic Press), page 112

Questions about syringic acid

What does syringic acid mean?
Syringic acid means a naturally occurring O-methylated trihydroxybenzoic acid found in various plants.
What part of speech is syringic acid?
Syringic acid is a noun.

Words near syringic acid in the dictionary

  1. syringes
  2. syringesful
  3. syringetin
  4. syringetins
  5. syringic
  6. syringic acid
  7. syringin
  8. syringing
  9. syringo-
  10. syringobulbia
  11. syringocoele

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