Acetyl phenyl phosphate metal catalysis

For example, a number of studies have been made on the metal ion-catalyzed hydrolyses of acetyl phosphate and acetyl phenyl phosphate, " but the role of the metal ion in these processes remains uncertain. Investigations of catalysis by exchange labile metal ions e.g. Ca" and Mg") have yielded conflicting results and both the nature and distribution of the kinetically significant species, as well as the positions of bond cleavage, have yet to be determined unequivocally. Chelation, charge neutralization and attack by metal-bound hydroxide have variously been proposed as important factors in acyl phosphate hydrolysis. 

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