Traumatic Acid

Following on from yesterdays ‘Moronic Acid’, todays stupidly named molecule is ‘Traumatic Acid’

Image kindly reproduced according to the lisence at : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Traumatic_acid_structure.png

Traumatic acid is a solid, white, water insoluble dicarboxylic acid.

However, it is found naturally in plants and is a wound healing agent (hence the name!)