monoester

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English

Etymology

From mono- +‎ ester.

Pronunciation

Noun

monoester (plural monoesters)

  1. (organic chemistry) An ester of a polyhydric alcohol or a polycarboxylic acid containing only a single ester group.
    • 1905, “Progress in Pharmacy”, in The American Journal of Pharmacy, page 287:
      Frederick B. Power and Frank Tutin have experimentally confirmed the observations of Carré, that at temperatures above 110° the interaction between phosphoric acid and glycerole results in the production of varying amounts of diester accompanying the monoester or glycerophosphoric acid.
    • 2016 May 22, Qixun Shi et al., “Water-soluble cavitands promote hydrolyses of long-chain diesters”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, volume 113, number 33, →DOI, page 9199:
      For example, hydrolysis of diesters (Fig. 1) separated by a long methylene chain exhibits equal rate constants at each site (k1 = k2), which sets an upper limit of 36.8% for the yield of the monoester.
    • 2018 February 14, “Ketone drink could help diabetics by lowering blood sugar”, in Voxy.co.nz, archived from the original on 14 February 2018:
      Twenty healthy individuals participated in the study and on two occasions consumed the ketone monoester supplement or a placebo after a 10-hour fast.

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