noun
- salts or esters of phenol, formed when phenol reacts with a base or acid
Usage: chemistry
Examples
- The chemist prepared sodium phenolate by treating phenol with sodium hydroxide.
- Phenolates are important intermediates in organic synthesis.
- The reaction produced various metal phenolates as byproducts.
- Laboratory analysis confirmed the presence of phenolates in the solution.
- Phenolates exhibit different solubility properties compared to their parent phenols.