alicyclic compound


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Noun1.alicyclic compound - an aliphatic compound that contains a ring of atoms
aliphatic compound - organic compound that is an alkane or alkene or alkyne or their derivative
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The phosphorylation of AMPK and its target ACC were assessed by immunoblot analysis, where it is observed that aliphatic or alicyclic compounds 1-3 were not able to activate the enzyme (data not shown).
These may belong to different derivatives of mono- and bicyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, but also to alicyclic compounds. In [114] it is demonstrated that in group composition determination with TLC homologous series of alicyclic and aromatic-alicyclic (hybrid) compounds were identified between aliphatic and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.