Dicarboxylic Acid

Chapter Title

Dicarboxylic Acid

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Document Type

Book Chapter

Editors

Philip Wexler

Description

Dicarboxylic acids are organic compounds that contain two functional carboxylic acid (–COOH) groups. Industrially, they are important in producing polyester, polyols, polyamides, and nylon and as a precursor to active pharmaceutical ingredients and additives. Dicarboxylic acids are important water-soluble components of atmospheric aerosols. Succinic, adipic, and glutaric acid may be harmful if inhaled, swallowed, or absorbed through the skin. All these acids alone or in combination do not show any mutagenic effect. Some of the dicarboxylic acids (sebacic acid) have been advocated to have an anti-hyperglycemic effect, whereas analysis of serum-free fatty acids from patients with Reye's syndrome (acute encephalopathy with visceral steatosis syndrome) had revealed the presence of dicarboxylic acids in over half of the patients' total free fatty acids; both medium-chain (6–12 carbon lengths) and long-chain (14–18 carbon lengths) dicarboxylic acids were identified in such studies. Malathion, a well-known organophosphate pesticide, was previously marketed as malathion dicarboxylic acid, is fetotoxic and toxic to infants and children.

Publication Date

3-2023

Publisher

Elsevier

Keywords

Adipic acid (hexanedioic acid), Azelaic acid (nonanedioic acid), Dicarboxylic acid, Glutaric acid, Malonic acid, Organic acids, Oxalic acid, Pimelic acid (heptanedioic acid), Reye's syndrome, Sebacic acid (decanedioic acid), Suberic acid (octanedioic acid), Succinic acid (butanedioic acid), Undecanedioic acid

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences

Comments

This is an update of M.S. Parmar, Dicarboxylic Acid, Editor(s): Philip Wexler, Encyclopedia of Toxicology (Third Edition), Academic Press, 2014, Pages 76–79, ISBN 9780123864550, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-386454-3.01217-3.

ORCID ID

0000-0003-4970-9857

DOI

10.1016/B978-0-12-824315-2.00663-1

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