Α-Ketoglutaric acid

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

α-Ketoglutaric acid (AKG) is an organic compound with the formula HO2CCO(CH2)2CO2H. A white, nontoxic solid, it is a common dicarboxylic acid. Relevant to its biological roles, it exists in water as its conjugate base α-ketoglutarate. It is also classified as a 2-ketocarboxylic acid. β-Ketoglutaric acid is an isomer.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Α-Ketoglutaric acid”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Edgar181, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.