Hopanoic

Quick meaning: Hopanoic is an adjective meaning (organic chemistry) Pertaining to a carboxylic acid of hopane.

Meaning

(organic chemistry) Pertaining to a carboxylic acid of hopane.

Example Sentences

The concentrations of the hopanoic acids represent only a very small fraction of the equivalent hopane hydrocarbon originally in the sample.

This behavior has, for instance, allowed the identification of geochemical markers as those of the hopanoic triterpenes series (52-64), which arc of importance in interpreting the evolution and origin of organic matter in sediments (Fig. 3.3).

The effects of deep burial diagenetic process are generally limited in the Westbury Formation, as indicated by: (1) The organics which have high n-alkane odd over even preference indices (in the C-27-C-35 n-alkane homologues), low temperature isomers in the steroidal and hopanoic fractions and the presence of unsaturated n-alkanes.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include heptenoic, hydroxycarboxylic, hydroxybenzoic, hexoic, hydrocarboxylic, hydroxyphenolic.

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