hopanoic

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English

Etymology

From hopane +‎ -oic.

Adjective

hopanoic (not comparable)

  1. (organic chemistry) Pertaining to a carboxylic acid of hopane.
    • 1989, Dissertation Abstracts International: The sciences and engineering, page 2534:
      The effects of deep burial diagenetic process are generally limited in the Westbury Formation, as indicated by: (1) The organics which have high n-alkane odd over even preference indices (in the C-27-C-35 n-alkane homologues), low temperature isomers in the steroidal and hopanoic fractions and the presence of unsaturated n-alkanes.
    • 1989, L. A. Nakhimovsky, Marcel Lamotte, Jacques Joussot-Dubien, Handbook of low temperature electronic spectra of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, →ISBN, page 76:
      This behavior has, for instance, allowed the identification of geochemical markers as those of the hopanoic triterpenes series (52-64), which arc of importance in interpreting the evolution and origin of organic matter in sediments (Fig. 3.3).
    • 1999, Bruce C. Alleman, Andrea Leeson, In situ bioremediation of petroleum hydrocarbon and other organic compounds, →ISBN:
      The concentrations of the hopanoic acids represent only a very small fraction of the equivalent hopane hydrocarbon originally in the sample.