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Descriptor English: Esterification
Descriptor Spanish: Esterificación
Descriptor esterificación
Scope note: Proceso de conversión de un ácido en un derivado alquílico o arílico. Por regla general, el proceso consiste en la reacción de un ácido con un alcohol, en presencia de trazas de un ácido mineral, a modo de catalizador, o en la reacción de un cloruro de acilo con alcohol. La esterificación también puede efectuarse mediante procesos enzimáticos.
Descriptor Portuguese: Esterificação
Descriptor French: Estérification
Tree number(s): G02.111.270
G02.607.250
G03.344
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004951
Scope note: The process of converting an acid into an alkyl or aryl derivative. Most frequently the process consists of the reaction of an acid with an alcohol in the presence of a trace of mineral acid as catalyst or the reaction of an acyl chloride with an alcohol. Esterification can also be accomplished by enzymatic processes.
Annotation: almost never IM
Allowable Qualifiers: DE effets des médicaments et des substances chimiques
GE génétique
IM immunologie
PH physiologie
RE effets des radiations
DeCS ID: 5040
Unique ID: D004951
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Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1975/07/25
Revision Date: 2016/06/23
Estérification - Preferred
Concept UI M0007765
Preferred term Estérification



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