acid-base catalysis
11amino acid — Biochem. any of a class of organic compounds that contains at least one amino group, NH2, and one carboxyl group, COOH: the alpha amino acids, RCH(NH2)COOH, are the building blocks from which proteins are constructed. Cf. essential amino acid.… …
12carboxylic acid — Chem. any organic acid containing one or more carboxyl groups. [1900 05; CARBOXYL + IC] * * * Any organic compound with the general chemical formula ―COOH in which a carbon (C) atom is bonded to an oxygen (O) atom by a double bond to make a… …
13Acetic acid — Acetic redirects here. It is not to be confused with Ascetic. Acetic acid …
14Carboxylic acid — Structure of a carboxylic acid Carboxylate ion …
15nucleic acid — /nooh klee ik, klay , nyooh /, Biochem. any of a group of long, linear macromolecules, either DNA or various types of RNA, that carry genetic information directing all cellular functions: composed of linked nucleotides. [1890 95; NUCLE(US) + IC;… …
16Nucleic acid tertiary structure — Example of a large catalytic RNA. The self splicing group II intron from Oceanobacillus iheyensis.[1] The tertiary structure of a nucleic acid is its precise three dimensional structure, as defined by the atomic coordinates.[2] …
17Phosphotungstic acid — Chembox new Name = Phosphotungstic acid ImageFile = Phosphotungstate 3D polyhedra.png ImageName = Structure of the phosphotungstate anion OtherNames = PTA, TPA, tungstophosphoric acid Section1 = Chembox Identifiers CASNo = 12067 99 1 Section2 =… …
18Magic acid — Fluorosulfuric acid antimony pentafluoride 1:1 Other names Magic Acid …
19Brønsted catalysis equation — The Brønsted catalysis equation or law or correlation, after Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, gives the relationship between acid strength and catalytic activity. log(k) = alpha*log(K a) + CA plot of the common logarithm of the reaction rate constant… …
20Hammerhead ribozyme — Taxobox | color=white name = Hammerhead Ribozyme image caption = Stylized rendering of the full length hammerhead ribozyme RNA molecule species = Catalytic RNAHammerhead RNAs are small self cleaving RNAs that have a conserved motif found in… …
