(organic chemistry) The simplest organic peracid H-CO-OOH that is used to cleave the disulfide links in peptides

(biochemistry) Any aldonic acid having six carbon atoms in its chain

(organic chemistry) Any of a family of steroid carboxylic acids related to 5β-androstane-17-β-carboxylic acid

(organic chemistry) The fatty acid trans docos-13-enoic acid that is the trans- isomer of erucic acid

(organic chemistry) punicic acid

(organic chemistry) A secondary bile acid that is a metabolic product of intestinal bacteria

(organic chemistry) Any derivative of undecanoic acid in which one of the hydrogen atoms of the chain has been replaced with a mercaptan (-SH) group, but especially 11-mercaptoundecanoic acid which is used in the preparation of nanocomposite materials

(medicine) Any of a group of beta-lactam antibiotics originally obtained from Streptomyces bacteria

(chemistry) Any carboxylic acid in which a halogen atom takes the place of a hydrogen atom in acetic acid; a common undesirable by-product of the chlorination of drinking water.

(biochemistry) Any of a family of steroid acids derived from sterols by oxidation with a cytochrome