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Formate (IUPAC name: methanoate) is the conjugate base of formic acid. Formate is an anion () or its derivatives such as ester of formic acid. The salts and esters are generally colorless.
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38,508 papers- Formate metabolism in health and disease.Molecular metabolism · 2020
- The formate-hydrogen axis and its impact on the physiology of enterobacterial fermentation.Advances in microbial physiology · 2024
- Formate and its role in amino acid metabolism.Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care · 2020
- Formate dehydrogenase.FEMS microbiology reviews · 1990
- Formate hydrogenlyase, formic acid translocation and hydrogen production: dynamic membrane biology during fermentation.Biochimica et biophysica acta. Bioenergetics · 2023
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Formate (IUPAC name: methanoate) is the conjugate base of formic acid. Formate is an anion () or its derivatives such as ester of formic acid. The salts and esters are generally colorless.
==Fundamentals== When dissolved in water, formic acid converts to formate:
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