Alanin

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See also: alanin, and alanîn

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Alanin n (strong, genitive Alanins, plural Alanine)

  1. alanine (nonessential amino acid; C3H7NO2)
    • 1850, Adolph Strecker, “Ueber die künstliche Bildung der Milchsäure und einen neuen, dem Glycocoll homologen Körper”, in Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie, volume 75, number 1, →DOI, page 30:
      […] und es bleibt eine stark saure, dicke Mutterlauge welche die salzsaure Verbindung eines neuen Körpers enthält, den ich Alanin nennen will.
      and what remains is a strongly acidic, mother liquor which contains the hydrochloric acid compound of a new body which I will call alanine.

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