Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.
Alpha-Ketoglutaric acid α-Ketoglutaric acid is one of two ketone derivatives of glutaric acid. (The term ketoglutaric acid when not further qualified almost always refers to the alpha variant. β-Ketoglutaric acid varies only by the position of the ketone functional group and is much less common.)Its anion α-ketoglutarate (α-KG also called oxo-glutarate) is an important biological compound.
