esterify
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Waxes are made up of long fatty acid chains esterified to long-chain alcohols.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
The residual OH groups of the cellulose are esterified and substitution by an NO2 group takes place in the aromatic residue, giving a mixed nitric nitrobenzoic ester.
From Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 by C. F. Cross
The most important results are these: Monoses.—The aldoses are fully esterified, in the pentoses 4 OH, in the hexoses 5 OH groups reacting.
From Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 by C. F. Cross
By allowing phosphorus oxychloride to interact with phenolsulphonic acid, he obtained a well-defined substance possessing tanning properties, which he considered an esterified phenolsulphonic acid anhydride, the composition of which he determined as HO.C_6H_4.SO_2.O.C_6H_4HSO_3.
From Synthetic Tannins by Georg Grasser
It is well known that di-ortho-substituted benzoic acids are esterified with difficulty.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various
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