Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Noting an acid, a colorless compound, C6H5CH(OH)COOH, prepared by the hydrolysis of bitter-almond oil or by the action of hydrochloric acid on a mixture of benzaldehyde and hydrocyanic acid. It forms large rhombic crystals, melts at 118° C., and may be resolved into its optical isomers. Also called
phenylglycolic acid or paramandelic acid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Chem.) Pertaining to an acid first obtained from benzoic aldehyde (oil of better almonds), as a white crystalline substance; -- called also
phenyl glycolic acid .
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
mandelic acid
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ladenburg has also formed a series of artificial alkaloids, called _tropeines_, by uniting the base tropine with different organic acids, as in the case of the compound of mandelic acid and tropine, known as _homatropine_, an alkaloid of action similar to atropine, but possessing some decided advantages in its use.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 Various
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In late 2001, the company opened two facilities to make chiral pharmaceutical building blocks, including a 1,000 metric ton/year plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany, to produce its ChiPros amines and secondary alcohols, and another multi-ton facility at the same location to manufacture mandelic acid.
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[5] vanillyl mandelic acid (, 9% inhibition at 4.5 mM [1]) [1]
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