noun
definition
Any of class of organic radicals, RCO-, formed by the removal of a hydroxyl group from a carboxylic acid.
Examples of acyl in a Sentence
From these acyl derivatives the elements of water are removed, either by simple heating or by boiling their aqueous solution; this elimination is accompanied by the formation of the azoxime ring.
The orthoand parasemidines can be readily distinguished by their behaviour with different reagents; thus with nitrous acid the ortho-semidines give azimido compounds, whilst the para-semidines give complex diazo derivatives; with formic or acetic acids the ortho-semidines give anhydro compounds of a basic character, the para-semidines give acyl products possessing no basic character.
The elevation of long chain acyl carnitine reappeared in the F2 generation proves its heritability.
The same machinery is also used for export of acetyl and other short-chain acyl groups out of the mitochondria.
We'll take ethanoyl chloride as a typical acyl chloride, and ethanoic anhydride as a typical acid anhydride.
It could save you having to read the acyl chloride page at all.
You would obviously still have to fractionally distil the mixture to separate the acyl chloride from any excess acid or sulfur dichloride oxide.
The complete chemical name for a specific ceramide includes the sphingoid and fatty acyl substituents.