acetoacetic acid meaning

• Noun: acetoacetic acid
  1. Unstable acid found in abnormal amounts in the blood and urine in some cases of impaired metabolism (as diabetes mellitus or starvation)

  Derived forms: acetoacetic acids

  Type of: acetone body, ketone body

  Encyclopedia: Acetoacetic acid

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  [Medicine]
  n : an unstable acid C₄H₆O₃ that is one of the ketone bodies found in abnormal amounts in the blood and urine in certain conditions of impaired metabolism (as in starvation and diabetes mellitus) —called also diacetic acid
  

• In the next step, the pyrrolium cation condenses with acetoacetic acid yielding hygrine.
• Acetoacetic acid is a weak acid.
• The proportions are 78 % beta-hydroxybutyric acid, 20 % acetoacetic acid and 2 % acetone.
• This is due to the breakdown of acetoacetic acid into acetone and carbon dioxide which is exhaled through the lungs.
• In this reaction the acetoacetic acid in an alkali medium reacts with the sodium nitroprusside producing a magenta coloured complex:
• However, as these compounds are derived from the acetoacetic acid their existence can be assumed and a separate test is not therefore necessary.
• According to his account, he wrote a thesis in 1919 in which the H-bond was introduced and applied to tautomerism in acetoacetic acid.
• Diketene readily hydrolyzes in water forming acetoacetic acid, its half-life in pure water is approximately 45 minutes a 25 �C at 2 < pH < 7.
• The three ketone compounds appear in different proportions in the urine, although these proportions are relatively constant in different samples as both the acetone and the beta-hydroxybutyric acid are produced from the acetoacetic acid.
• "' Acetoacetic acid "'( also diacetic acid ) is the organic compound with the formula CH 3 COCH 2 COOH . It is the simplest beta-keto acid group, and like other members of this class it is unstable.

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