-oate

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Suffix[edit]

-oate

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

Related terms[edit]

-oic

References[edit]

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

Anagrams[edit]

toea

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