itaconic acid

English

Etymology

Anagram of aconitic, modelled on German Itaconsäure as an anagram of Aconitsäure (“aconitic acid”), coined by Gustav Crasso (1840).[1]

Noun

itaconic acid (uncountable)

  1. (organic chemistry) One of the isomeric dicarboxylic acids produced by the distillation of citric acid, or as metabolites by microorganisms, CH2=C(CO2H)-CH2CO2H.

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References

  1. ^ Gustav Ludwig Crasso (1840) “Untersuchungen über das Verhalten der Citronsäure in höherer Temperatur und die daraus hervorgehenden Produkte”, in Justus Liebigs Annalen der Chemie (in German), volume 34, number 1, page 63: “Ich schlage daher statt Citricicsäure den Namen Brenzaconitsäure oder Itaconsäure vor, welcher letztere durch Umsetzung der Buchstaben die Abstammung aus Aconitsäure anzeigen soll. ― I therefore suggest the name "brenzaconitic acid" or "itaconic acid" instead of citricic acid, the latter of which is intended to indicate its origin from aconitic acid by transposing the letters.”

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