Protons carboxylates and

Zaitsevs rule (Section 5 10) When two or more alkenes are capable of being formed by an elimination reaction the one with the more highly substituted double bond (the more sta ble alkene) is the major product Zwitterion (Section 27 3) The form in which neutral amino acids actually exist The ammo group is in its protonated form and the carboxyl group is present as a carboxylate... 

Reaction (5.N) describes the nylon salt nylon equilibrium. Reactions (5.0) and (5.P) show proton transfer with water between carboxyl and amine groups. Since proton transfer equilibria are involved, the self-ionization of water, reaction (5.Q), must also be included. Especially in the presence of acidic catalysts, reactions (5.R) and (5.S) are the equilibria of the acid-catalyzed intermediate described in general in reaction (5.G). The main point in including all of these equilibria is to indicate that the precise concentration of A and B... 

Although not of industrial importance, several asymmetric syntheses of (R)-pantolactone (9) have been developed. Stereoselective abstraction of the j Z-proton of the achiral 1,3-propanediol derivative (23) by j -butyUthium-(-)-sparteine, followed by carboxylation and hydrolysis, results in (R)-pantolactone in 80% yield and 95% ee (53). 

Some materials such as water, alcohols, carboxylic acids and primary and secondary amines may be able to act simultaneously as proton donors and acceptors. Cellulose and poly(vinyl alcohol) are two polymers which also function in this way. 

Zwitterion (Section 27.3) The form in which neutral amino acids actually exist. The amino group is in its protonated form and the carboxyl group is present as a carboxylate... 

Rhodium forms an EDTA complex isomorphous with the corresponding ones of Ru, Fe, Ga and Cr. In Rh(EDTAH)(H20) one carboxylate is proton-ated and thus the acid is pentadentate, the water molecule completing the octahedron (Figure 2.43). 

Scheme 2.16). Assuming that protonation is an equilibrium and the concentration of protonated carboxylic acid is very low, the rate equation is as... 

This is unlikely to be a dominant factor. Steric effects have been observed in the Koch-Haaf synthesis of carboxylic acids (Pincock et al., 1959 Stork and Bersohn, 1960 Peters and Vs,n Bekkum, 1971), but these are ascribed to the steric requirements of the protonated carboxyl group (—COOHj) and not to those of the oxocarbonium group (—CO+). In FHSOs—SbFs, the product is the alkyloxocarbonium ion. 

Two classes of inhibitors for influenza virus are currently available (Hayden 2006). The M2 proton channel inhibitors amantadine and rimantadine and the neuraminidase (NA) inhibitors oseltamivir carboxylate and zanamivir. Chapter 5 provides more details about the class of NA inhibitors. 

Fig, 1. Effect of pH on the uptake of R016 by protonated biomass and the biomass from which carboxyl groups were removed. 

AB The molecules belonging to the last category are equipped with both the acidic and the basic functionalities and, hence, they can interact through the hydrogen bonds both as proton donors and proton acceptors. Acohols and carboxylic acids are among the most representative examples from this group. 

P. Imas, B. Bar-Yosef, U. Kakafi, and R. Ganmore-Neumann, Phosphate induced carboxylate and proton release by tomato roots. Plant Soil /9/ 35 (1997). 

A different type of catalysis is observed using proline as a catalyst.166 Proline promotes addition of acetone to aromatic aldehydes with 65-77% enantioselectivity. It has been suggested that the carboxylic acid functions as an intramolecular proton donor and promotes reaction through an enamine intermediate. 

Figure 10-4. The double- and single-site titration models for His and Asp groups [42]. (A) In the double site model, only one X is used for describing the equilibrium between the protonated and deprotonated forms, while the tautomer interversion process is represented by the variable x. (B) In the single-site model, protonation at different sites is represented by different X variables. HSP refers to the doubly protonated form of histidine. HSD and HSE refer to the singly protonated histidine with a proton on the h and e nitrogens, respectively. ASP1 and ASP2 refer to the protonated carboxylic acid with a proton on either of the carboxlate oxygens...

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