esterified's Usage Examples:

esterify mentioned in Chapter 20 that an alcohol can be esterified with an inorganic acid just as well as with a carboxylic acid.

esterifyriacylglycerol has a glycerol backbone to which are esterified 3 fatty acids.

It was found that the normal primary alcohols were all esterified at about the same rate, the secondary alcohols more slowly than the primary, and the tertiary alcohols still more slowly.

7 dioxynaphthalene is readily esterified by methyl iodide and sulphuric acid to a dimethyl ether; and no more than two mono-substitution derivatives are known.

It is well known that di-orthosubstituted benzoic acids are esterified with difficulty.

Synonyms:

turn, change state,

Antonyms:

curdle, nitrify, empty,