enolize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "As in base-catalyzed reactions, crossed reactions between two carbonyl compounds each of which can enolize are likely to result in a mixture of four products."
- "These differences have been attributed to the ability of free saccharides to enolize in basic media and to the resistance of hydrazones to do so, as detailed next."
- "The phosphorus tribromide is then formed in situ. Carboxylic acids that enolize easily will also react without a catalyst present."
- "If we condense two species where one cannot enolize, then this principle reduces our number of primary products to two."
- "Pyruvate is known to enolize rapidly under the conditions employed by Oshima and Tamiya; in contrast, the a-keto analogs of a number of other amino acids enolize at much slower rates."
- "It was thus proposed that the matched pK values of the dienolate and of Tyr-14 permitted the hydrogen bond between them to become a very strong one, thus providing the energy to enolize the substrate and form the unstable intermediate."
Etymology
From enol + -ize.
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
enolizes (present, singular)
enolizing (participle, present)
enolized (participle, past)
enolized (past)
enolise (alternative)