-oate

English

Suffix

-oate

(organic chemistry) Used to form the names of salts and esters of carboxylic acids e.g. benzoate, hexanoate

Related terms

-oic

References

IUPAC Table 5 Suffixes and prefixes for some important characteristic groups in substitutive nomenclature

Anagrams

toea

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