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English
Etymology
From hopane + -oic.
Adjective
hopanoic (not comparable)
- (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.