Definition of Carbamate

1. Noun. A salt (or ester) of carbamic acid.

Specialized synonyms: Ammonium Carbamate
Generic synonyms: Salt

Definition of Carbamate

1. Noun. (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of carbamic acid. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Carbamate

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Carbamate

1. 1. A salt or ester of carbamic acid forming the basis of urethane hypnotics. 2. A group of cholinesterase inhibiting insecticides resembling organophosphates; the most frequent carbamate is carbaril. Synonym: carbamoate, carbaril. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Carbamate

carbaalane
carbaalanes
carbaborane
carbaboranes
carbacephem
carbacephems
carbachol
carbachols
carbacrylamine
carbacrylamine resins
carbacrylic
carbadox
carbage
carbaldehyde
carbaldehydes
carbamate (current term)
carbamate hydrolase
carbamate kinase
carbamates
carbamazepine
carbamic
carbamic acid
carbamide
carbamides
carbamidomethyl
carbamidomethylation
carbamine
carbamines
carbamino
carbamino compound

Literary usage of Carbamate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1886)
"presence of sodium hydroxide, yields one-half of its nitrogen in the free state, the other half remaining in the form of sodium carbamate— 010 + ..."

2. Review of American Chemical Research by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1906)
"Solutions of ammonium carbamate in water quickly decompose until a certain equilibrium between carbamate, carbon dioxide and total carbon dioxide and ..."

3. The Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America: (The United States by United States Pharmacopoeial Convention (1820)
"Ethyl carbamate occurs in colorless, columnar crystals or scales, odorless, ... One Gm. of Ethyl carbamate dissolves in 0.45 mil of water, ..."

4. A Manual of pharmacology and its applications to therapeutics and toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1917)
"The efficiency increases with the magnitude of the alkyl radicals (Binet). There is also a decided diuretic effect. ETHYL carbamate This acts more ..."

5. Electrolysis and Electrosynthesis of Organic Compounds by Walther Löb (1898)
"The supposition that in living organisms carbamide is produced from ammonium carbamate by the splitting off of water prompted Drechsel to make experiments ..."

6. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry by Olof Hammarsten (1911)
"DRECHSEL therefore accepts the theory of the formation of urea from ammonium carbamate, and believes that the alternating oxidation and reduction take place ..."

7. Practical Chemistry: A Course of Laboratory Work by Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir, Douglas Carnegie (1887)
"When ammonium carbamate interacts with sodium hypo- chlorite (NaCIO) in presence of soda, one-half of the nitrogen of the carbamate is evolved as nitrogen ..."

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