esterify

American  

[e-ster-uh-fahy] / ɛˈstɛr əˌfaɪ /

verb (used with or without object)

Chemistry.

esterified, esterifying

1. to convert into an ester.

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esterify British  

/ ɛˈstɛrəˌfaɪ /

verb

1. chem to change or cause to change into an ester

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Other Word Forms

• esterification
  noun
• esterifiable
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of esterify

First recorded in 1900–05; ester + -ify

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

esterified

Waxes are made up of long fatty acid chains esterified to long-chain alcohols.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

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

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

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 was found that the normal primary alcohols were all esterified at about the same rate, the secondary alcohols more slowly than the primary, and the tertiary alcohols still more slowly.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various

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