glucaric acid

[ gloo-kar-ik ]

noun

1. saccharic acid.

Word History and Origins

Origin of glucaric acid¹

gluc- + -aric, as in saccharic

Example Sentences

Producing glucaric acid the usual way—through chemical oxidation of glucose—is expensive, often yields product that isn’t very pure, and creates a lot of hazardous waste.

From MIT Technology Review

Prather’s team wanted to shut down the pathway nourishing growth and divert the sugar into a pathway producing glucaric acid—but only after the bacterial culture had grown enough to sustain itself as a productive chemical factory.

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The glucose shifts to the chemical-synthesis pathway, greatly increasing the amount of glucaric acid produced.

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That’s the approach she has taken with glucaric acid, which has multiple commercial applications, some of them green.

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