decarboxylation
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Research
15,246 papers- Dual Activities of Oxidation and Oxidative Decarboxylation by Flavoenzymes.Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2022
- Intragenomic Decarboxylation of 5-Carboxy-2'-deoxycytidine.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2021
- Light-Driven Enzymatic Decarboxylation of Dicarboxylic Acids.ChemistryOpen · 2021
- Decarboxylation of Poly[N-(acryloyloxy)phthalimide] as a Versatile Tool for Postpolymerization Modification.Macromolecular rapid communications · 2022
- Compartmental analysis of dopa decarboxylation in living brain from dynamic positron emission tomograms.Synapse (New York, N.Y.) · 1998
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- In organic chemistry
- In biochemistry
- Decarboxylation of amino acids
- Fatty acid synthesis
- References
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Decarboxylation is a chemical reaction that removes a carboxyl group and releases carbon dioxide (CO2). Usually, decarboxylation refers to a reaction of carboxylic acids, removing a carbon atom from a carbon chain. The reverse process, which is the first chemical step in photosynthesis, is called carboxylation, the addition of CO2 to a compound. Enzymes that catalyze decarboxylations are called decarboxylases or, the more formal term, carboxy-lyases (EC number 4.1.1).
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