(biotin), etc.

In commercial settings, soaps are carboxylates.

Formation

Carboxylates form by carboxylation reactions where carbon dioxide adds to a carbon nucleophile. In the laboratory, this process is illustrated by the conversion of Grignard reagents to carboxylates:
:In Nature, carboxylation is the first step in carbon fixation related to photosynthesis

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