designating a white, crystalline, organic acid, C6H5·CH:CH·COOH, produced from benzaldehyde: the corresponding aldehyde gives oil of cinnamon its characteristic flavor and odor
cinnamic in American English
(sɪˈnæmɪk, ˈsɪnəmɪk)
adjective
of or obtained from cinnamon
Word origin
[1880–85; cinnam(on) + -ic]This word is first recorded in the period 1880–85. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: automatism, barnstorm, highball, interface, regionalism-ic is a suffix forming adjectives from other parts of speech, occurring originally inGreek and Latin loanwords (metallic; poetic; archaic; public) and, on this model, used as an adjective-forming suffix with the particular senses“having some characteristics of” (opposed to the simple attributive use of the basenoun) (balletic; sophomoric); “in the style of” (Byronic; Miltonic); “pertaining to a family of peoples or languages” (Finnic; Semitic; Turkic)
Examples of 'cinnamic' in a sentence
cinnamic
Among these are benzoic and cinnamic acids.
Beloborodova Natalia, Bairamov Iskander, Olenin Andrei, Shubina Victoria, TeplovaVera, Fedotcheva Nadezhda 2012, 'Effect of phenolic acids of microbial origin on production of reactive oxygen speciesin mitochondria and neutrophils', Journal of Biomedical Sciencehttp://www.jbiomedsci.com/content/19/1/89. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Cinnamic-acid-modified poly(ethylene glycol) chains were threaded in a-cyclodextrins to form polyrotaxanes.
Liu R, Lai YS, He B, Li Y, Wang G, Chang S, Gu Z 2012, 'Supramolecular nanoparticles generated by the self-assembly of polyrotaxanes for antitumordrug delivery', International Journal of Nanomedicinehttp://www.dovepress.com/supramolecular-nanoparticles-generated-by-the-self-assembly-of-polyrot-a11195. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Based on structure elucidation conclude that synthetic compound was cinnamic acid.
Jeffry Julianus, Elvan Luckyvano 2016, 'SINTESIS ASAM SINAMAT DARI BENZALDEHIDA DAN ASAM MALONAT DENGAN KATALIS DIETILAMINA',Jurnal Farmasi Sains dan Komunitashttp://e-journal.usd.ac.id/index.php/JFSK/article/view/61. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Cinnamic acid derivatives are other known feeding deterrents for leaf beetles.
A. N. EKİZ 2014, 'Importance of Secondary Metabolites for Leaf Beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)',International Journal of Secondary Metabolitehttp://ijate.net/index.php/ijsm/article/view/49. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The order of simple phenols to decrease methane was: caffeic acid > p-coumaric > ferulic > cinnamic.
A. Jayanegara 2009, 'Ruminal Methane Production on Simple Phenolic Acids Addition in in Vitro Gas ProductionMethod', Media Peternakanhttp://medpet.journal.ipb.ac.id/index.php/mediapeternakan/article/view/1158. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Other compounds detected were oxalic and fumaric acids, p-hydroxybenzoic and cinnamic acids.
Vanessa Vieira, Lillian Barros, Anabela Martins, Isabel C. F. R. Ferreira 2016, 'Nutritional and Biochemical Profiling of Leucopaxillus candidus (Bres.) Singer WildMushroom', Moleculeshttp://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/21/1/99. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Cinnamic acid and its derivatives have shown a variety of pharmacologic properties.
Sirintorn Yibchok-anun, Sirichai Adisakwattana, Weerachat Sompong, Sathaporn Ngamukote,Aramsri Meeprom 2012, 'Cinnamic Acid and Its Derivatives Inhibit Fructose-Mediated Protein Glycation', International Journal of Molecular Scienceshttp://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/13/2/1778/. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Among the phenolic acids, benzoic acid showed maximum antifungal activity followed by t-cinnamic acid.
Soumen Saha, Ayan Mukherjee, Subrata Biswas, Debjani Choudhury, Jayanta Saha, SrikumarPal, Mitali Sarkar, R.K. Kole 2018, 'Formulation and chemical characterization of Clerodendrum infortunatum leaf extractin relation to anti-fungal activity', Heliyonhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844018371925. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Cinnamic acids have been identified as interesting compounds with antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and cytotoxic properties.
Eleni Pontiki, Dimitra Hadjipavlou-Litina, Konstantinos Litinas, George Geromichalos 2014, 'Novel Cinnamic Acid Derivatives as Antioxidant and Anticancer Agents: Design, Synthesisand Modeling Studies', Moleculeshttp://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/19/7/9655. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)