Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2018 Apr 13;6(7):e13666. doi: 10.14814/phy2.13666

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

© 2018 The Authors. Physiological Reports published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of The Physiological Society and the American Physiological Society.

This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

PMC Copyright notice

Known ester derivatization reactions with acetate. Reaction 1 shows acetate derivatization to benzyl acetate using benzyldimethylammonium hydroxide as an ester derivatizing agent.(Richards et al. 1975) Reaction 2 shows acetate derivatization to propyl acetate using methylchloroformate as a derivatizing agent, followed by a subsequent reaction with propyl alcohol.(Tumanov et al. 2016) Any amino acids, carboxylic acids or nucleophiles remaining in samples are capable of reacting with derivatizing reagents and forming side products, drastically reducing the apparent concentration of SCFA and or leading to wide ranges for reported values. BDMPH, (benzyldimethylphenylammonium hydroxide; MCF, methylchloroformate.