Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A salt of phenol.
- transitive verb To treat with phenol or a salt of phenol.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A compound of phenol analogous to a salt.
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- noun chemistry
phenoxide
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Further, modeling of UbiA was able to connect the decreases in enzyme activity to specific chemical functions of mutated residues, i.e. activation of a phenolate intermediate by D191.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Michael L. Nickerson et al. 2010
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(PHAs) and alkyl phenolate present in water effluent from the Norwegian oil and gas industry.
THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010
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However, the situation changes when Arg418 is substituted with Gln: now the Tyr419 phenolate can accept a proton from water.
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However, the situation changes when Arg418 is substituted with Gln: now the Tyr419 phenolate can accept a proton from water.
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