monoester

plural monoesters

1. chemistryAn ester of a polyhydric alcohol or a polycarboxylic acid containing only a single ester group.

   Twenty healthy individuals participated in the study and on two occasions consumed the ketone monoester supplement or a placebo after a 10-hour fast.

   2018 February 14, “Ketone drink could help diabetics by lowering blood sugar”, in Voxy.co.nz, archived from the original on 14 Feb 2018

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   Frederick B. Power and Frank Tutin have experimentally confirmed the observations of Carré, that at temperatures above 110° the interaction between phosphoric acid and glycerole results in the production of varying amounts of diester accompanying the monoester or glycerophosphoric acid.

   1905, “Progress in Pharmacy”, in The American Journal of Pharmacy, page 287

   For example, hydrolysis of diesters (Fig. 1) separated by a long methylene chain exhibits equal rate constants at each site (k₁ = k₂), which sets an upper limit of 36.8% for the yield of the monoester.

   2016 May 22, Qixun Shi et al., “Water-soluble cavitands promote hydrolyses of long-chain diesters”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, volume 113, number 33, →DOI, page 9199