ACYL GROUP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does acyl group mean? 

• ACYL GROUP (noun)
  The noun ACYL GROUP has 1 sense:

1. any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group

  Familiarity information: ACYL GROUP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACYL GROUP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

acyl; acyl group

Context example:

an example of the acyl group is the acetyl group

Hypernyms ("acyl group" is a kind of...):

chemical group; group; radical ((chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "acyl group"):

acetyl; acetyl group; acetyl radical; ethanoyl group; ethanoyl radical (the organic group of acetic acid (CH3CO-))

foryml ((chemistry) the negative univalent acyl radical CHO that occurs in aldehydes)

 Context examples 

Fatty acids are activated in the cytosol by esterification with Coenzyme A (CoA) to form acyl-CoA (RCO-CoA, where R is the fatty acid acyl group).

(Mitochondrial Carnitine Palmitoyltransferase Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

An sulfonylurea with structural variation to glibenclamide, in which 2-methoxy-5-chlorobenzyl is replaced by a cyclic acyl group, with hypoglycemic activity.

(Glicaramide, NCI Thesaurus)

Class of enzymes that catalyze the transfer of acyl groups, most commonly a carboxylic acyl group forming either esters or amides.

(Acyltransferase, NCI Thesaurus)