How to pronounce“deprotonates”in English

After this, the water deprotonates the carbonyl oxygen, and we're left with a carboxylic acid as our other product.

And with a one-two punch, another molecule of water deprotonates this ion, forming an alcohol.

So to make the keto form, a water molecule deprotonates the oxonium ion.

First, the hydroxide ion attacks the alcohol of the enol and deprotonates it.

Then, a second molecule of water swoops in and deprotonates, just like the one-two punch in other hydration reactions we’ve seen.

Finally, methanol swoops back in, deprotonates the hydrogen on the positive oxygen, the electrons from the former O-H bond neutralize the positive charge on oxygen, and we tumble downhill as our final products form.

To separate them, we can add a sodium hydroxide solution to the funnel, which deprotonates the carboxylic acid, making a polar salt.