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carboxylation, n. Chem.|kɑːˌbɒksɪˈleɪʃən| [f. carboxyl n. + -ation.] Introduction of a carboxyl group or carbon dioxide into a molecule or compound to form a carboxylic acid or carboxylate.
1921Chem. Abstr. XV. 3211 The processes of sulfonation,..carboxylation, [etc.]. 1951Sci. News XXII. 78 Carbon dioxide is not directly reduced to formaldehyde by the photolytically produced hydrogen; it is incorporated into a carboxylation cycle and there reduced indirectly. 1962S. G. Waley in A. Pirie Lens Metabolism Rel. Cataract 357 Biotin is probably required here, as it is in the carboxylations in..fatty acid synthesis. 1981Dugas & Penney Bioorganic Chem. vii. 460 The function of biotin is to mediate the coupling of ATP cleavage to carboxylation. |