acyl anhydrides

1. 1.

   organic compounds that react with water to form an acid

   Synonymsacid anhydrides

   Broaderorganic compound

Questions about acyl anhydrides

What does acyl anhydrides mean?

acyl anhydrides means "organic compounds that react with water to form an acid".

What is another word for acyl anhydrides?

Close synonyms include acid anhydrides. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is acyl anhydrides a common word?

acyl anhydrides is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.