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- German · derived fromItaconsäure
- English todayitaconic acid
Anagram of aconitic, modelled on German Itaconsäure as an anagram of Aconitsäure (“aconitic acid”), coined by Gustav Crasso (1840).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
itaconic acid
Today it means: One of the isomeric dicarboxylic acids produced by the distillation of citric acid, or as metabolites by microorganisms, CH₂=C(CO₂H)-CH₂CO₂H. Full definition →
German Itaconsäure