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Molecular weights of repeat units future reference. Reactions 9 and in Sec. 5.10. 

Although it is not universally true that the activation energies of reactions parallel their heats of reaction, this is approximately true for the kind of addition reaction we are discussing. Accordingly, we can estimate E = k AH, with k an appropriate proportionality constant. If we consider the difference between two activation energies by combining this idea with Eq. (7.21), the contribution of the nonstabilized reference reaction drops out of Eq. (7.21) and we obtain... 

Solid-catalyzed 7eactioixs. Some Langmuir-Hinshelwood mechanisms for the reference reaction A -I- B R -I- S (see also Tables 7.2, 7.3) ... 

There have been attempts at direct measurements of these important kinetic parameters in AN,391 MA,j92 MAN,393 394 MMA394 and S395 polymerizations. When the reaction is compared to a reference reaction care must be taken to establish the influence of chain length on the reference reaction. 

In the revised Patterns scheme reactivity ratios involving S are used as reference reactions.15415 Reactivity ratios are then given by eqs. 60 and 61 ... 

The parameter 5 is a measure of the susceptibility of the substrate to nucleophilic attack, and n a measure of the nucleophilic reactivity as defined by a reference reaction. The rate constants for attack at saturated carbon are used to define the values of n.14 Table 10-4 lists the values of n for certain nucleophiles. This particular compilation lists the... 

The reactions of /3-propiolactone with various nucleophiles in 39 percent water-61 percent dioxane at 50 °C provide an example. Figure 10-4 shows the LFER correlation. The reaction constant for this seven-membered series is s = 0.77. It is a measure of the nucleophilic reactivity relative to the reference reaction. 

For further discussion and for calibration purposes we will have to define a reference solution reaction which would be sufficiently related to the given enzymatic reaction. This will help us in removing the problems associated with concentration effect and in focusing on the actual catalytic advantage of the enzyme. To do this we describe the reference reaction in solution as... 

FIGURE 5.3. A schematic free-energy profile for a reference reaction in a solvent cage. 

Calibrating the EVB Surface Using the Reference Reaction in Solution... 

With these AG we can estimate the energetics of the key asymptotic point on the potential surface of the reference reaction in which AH and R-O-R are kept in the same solvent cage. First, we note that (AG2) is... 

FIGURE 6.8. The energetics for the reference reaction in solution (see text for discussion and further clarification of the difference between our reference reaction and the actual mechanism in solution). 

It should be noted at this stage that the reference reaction of Fig. 6.8 does not necessarily correspond to the actual mechanism in solution. That is, our reference reaction represents a mathematical trick that guarantees the correct calibration for the asymptotic energies of the enzymatic reaction (by using the relevant solution experiments). This may be viewed as a... 

TABLE 7.2. Asymptotic Energy Values for the Reference Reaction in Solution and in the Gas Phase3... 

The determination of the AG - s depends, of course, on the choice of the reference reaction in solution. For instance, when one states that the rate enhancement by SNase is 1016, one makes the implicit assumption of the reference reaction being... 

This reaction requires the formation of an hydroxide ion, as in the enzyme reaction. A proper reference reaction for the first step in the enzyme would then be simply the proton transfer from a water molecule to a glutamic acid in solution ... 

FIGURE 8.3. The energetics of an hypothetical reference reaction that corresponds to the assumed mechanism of SNase but occurs in a solvent cage. 

FIGURE 8.4. Calculated free-energy profiles tor the reference reaction in solution, Ags, and for the enzyme reaction, Agp. 

Once the energetics of the reference reaction are estimated we are ready to analyse the effect of the enzyme, which reduces the barrier from —25 kcal/mol to —9 kcal/mol, with the first step (H20— H+ + OH-) as the... 

Using this relationship for different enzymatic reactions (e.g., Ref. 13) indicates that enzymes do not use the desolvation mechanism and that their reactions have no similarity to the corresponding gas-phase reaction, but rather to the reference reaction in water. In fact, enzymes have evolved as better solvents than water, by providing an improved solvation to the transition state (see Section 9.4). 

An examination of the autocorrelation function (0(0) <2(0) annucleophilic attack step in the catalytic reaction of subtilisin is presented in Fig. 9.4. As seen from the figure, the relaxation times for the enzymatic reaction and the corresponding reference reaction in solution are not different in a fundamental way and the preexponential factor t 1 is between 1012 and 1013 sec-1 in both cases. As long as this is the case, it is hard to see how enzymes can use dynamical effects as a major catalytic factor. 

FIGURE 9.4. The autocorrelation function of the time-dependent energy gap Q(t) = (e3(t) — 2(0) for the nucleophilic attack step in the catalytic reaction of subtilisin (heavy line) and for the corresponding reference reaction in solution (dotted line). These autocorrelation functions contain the dynamic effects on the rate constant. The similarity of the curves indicates that dynamic effects are not responsible for the large observed change in rate constant. The autocorrelation times, tq, obtained from this figure are 0.05 ps and 0.07ps, respectively, for the reaction in subtilisin and in water. 

The lq values for the reference reaction in the same reference solvent. 

Abbreviations Cy, cyclohexylidene DNP, 2,4-dinitrophenyl Py, pyridine TIPS, -(PrOjSiOSilPrOj- rac., racemate r.t., room temperature A, reaction in dichloromethane B, reaction in benzene D, reaction in diglyme T, reaction in toluene. Yields are described in the order of products, drawn from the left to the right. The sum of the last two compounds. Inserted as a reference reaction. 

Abbreviations All, allyl MP, dimelhylaminopyridine or 2,4,6-trimelhylpyridine MOM, methoxy-methyl Piv, pivaloyl Tr, trityl other abbreviations are the same. Obtained accompanied with the 3,4-0-( methyl orthoacetyl)-a-D-galactoside the 0-deacetyl derivative was also reported. Inserted as a reference reaction. A mixture of two diastereoisomers. On hydrolysis (R = F), 3,6-dideoxy-3,6-difluoro-D-glu-copyranose is formed. Methanolysis gives methyl 3-deoxy-3-fluoro-a-D-galactopyranoside. 

To do this, one particular half-reaction has to be selected as a reference reaction with zero potential. Once a reference half-reaction has been selected, all other half-reactions can then be assigned values relative to this reference value of 0 V. This is necessary because an experiment always measures the difference between two potentials rather than an absolute potential. The standard potential of 1.10 V for the Zn/Cu cell, for example, is the difference between the E ° values of its two half-reactions. 

We initially tested Candida antarctica lipase using imidazolium salt as solvent because CAL was found to be the best enzyme to resolve our model substrate 5-phenyl-l-penten-3-ol (la) the acylation rate was strongly dependent on the anionic part of the solvents. The best results were recorded when [bmim][BF4] was employed as the solvent, and the reaction rate was nearly equal to that of the reference reaction in diisopropyl ether. The second choice of solvent was [bmim][PFg]. On the contrary, a significant drop in the reaction rate was obtained when the reaction was carried out in TFA salt or OTf salt. From these results, we concluded that BF4 salt and PFg salt were suitable solvents for the present lipase-catalyzed reaction. Acylation of la was accomplished by these four enzymes Candida antarctica lipase, lipase QL from Alcaligenes, Lipase PS from Burkholderia cepacia and Candida rugosa lipase. In contrast, no reaction took place when PPL or PLE was used as catalyst in this solvent system. These results were established in March 2000 but we encountered a serious problem in that the results were significantly dependent on the lot of the ILs that we prepared ourselves. The problem was very serious because sometimes the reaction did not proceed at all. So we attempted to purify the ILs and established a very successful procedure (Fig. 3) the salt was first washed with a mixed solvent of hexane and ethyl acetate (2 1 or 4 1), treated with activated charcoal and passed into activated alumina neutral type I as an acetone solution. It was evaporated and dried under reduced... 

As it pertains to the solid state photodecarbonylation reaction, the model assumes that most aliphatic ketones have similar excitation energies, that reactions are more likely along the longer-lived triplet excited state, and that each reaction step must be thermoneutral or exothermic to be viable in the solid state. " Using acetone and its decarbonylation intermediates as a reference reaction (dashed lines in Fig. 7.24), we can analyze the energetic requirements to predict the effects of substituents on the stability of the radical intermediates. The a-cleavage reaction of triplet acetone generates an acetyl-methyl radical pair in a process that is 3.5 kcal/mol endothermic and the further loss of CO from acetyl radical is endothermic by 11.0... 

It is, however, now more usual to describe the strength of bases also in terms of Ka and pKa, thereby establishing a single continuous scale for both acids and bases. To make this possible we use, as our reference reaction for bases, the equilibrium... 

Hammett then designated the ionisation, in water at 25°, of m- and p-substituted benzoic acids as his standard reference reaction. He chose this reaction because reasonably precise aqueous ionisation constant, x, data were already available in the literature for quite a range of differently m- and p-substituted benzoic acids. Knowing XH and Kx for a variety of differently X-substituted benzoic acids, it is then possible to define a quantity, [Pg.362]

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