ChemInform Abstract: Structure-Activity Relations of (2-Chloroethyl)nitrosoureas. Part 1. Deuterium Isotope Effects in the Hydrolysis of 1-(2-Chloroethyl)-1-nitrosoureas: Evidence for the Rate-Limiting Step.

ChemInform ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 18 (33) ◽  
Author(s):  
N. BUCKLEY
1971 ◽  
Vol 49 (21) ◽  
pp. 3493-3501 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. T. Edward ◽  
P. H. Tremaine

The rate-acidity profiles for the Meyer rearrangement–hydrolysis of phenylnitromethane in sulfuric, perchloric, and hydrochloric acid show a maximum near 3 M acid. Ring-substituted phenylnitromethanes also show a maximum in their rate profiles, at slightly different acid concentrations. These maxima arise because the slow formation of the aci-form is followed by two competing reactions: fast tautomerization back to the nitro-form, and fast rearrangement–hydrolysis to the Meyer products. The rearrangement is rate-limiting in dilute acid and is acid-catalyzed, causing the rate increase. In more concentrated acid, the rate-limiting step is the nitro to aci tautomerization, which is not acid-catalyzed, and which goes more slowly as the activity of water decreases.The tautomerization was studied by means of primary and solvent deuterium isotope effects, and was found to occur through proton abstraction by water, through a transition state closely resembling the products.


2002 ◽  
Vol 45 (12) ◽  
pp. 339-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Eremektar ◽  
O. Karahan-Gul ◽  
F. Germirli-Babuna ◽  
S. Ovez ◽  
H. Uner ◽  
...  

Corn wet mill effluents are studied in terms of their characteristics relevant for biological treatment. They have a high COD of mainly soluble and biodegradable nature, with practically no soluble inert components. They generate a relatively high level of soluble residual metabolic products, which affects the choice of the appropriate biological treatment and favors aerobic activated sludge process. Experimental assessment of process kinetics yields typical values. Hydrolysis of the slowly biodegradable COD, the rate limiting step for the utilization of substrate, is characterized by an overall rate coefficient, which is within the range commonly associated for the hydrolysis of starch.


1978 ◽  
Vol 175 (2) ◽  
pp. 539-546 ◽  
Author(s):  
M L Sinnott ◽  
S G Withers

1. Removal of Mg2+ from Escherichia coli (lacZ) beta-galactosidase slightly increases the rate of hydrolysis of galactosyl pyridinium salts, but decreases the rate of hydrolysis of arylgalactosides. 2. Fair correlation of logkcat. and log (Km) with the pKa of aglycone is now observed for arglygalactosides, as well as for glycosyl pyridinium salts. 3. Degalactosylation of Mg2+-free enzyme is the rate-limiting step in the hydrolysis of 2,4-dinitrophenyl galactoside. 4. alpha-Deuterium kinetic isotope effects for both sets of substrates are consistent with the rate-determining generation of a glycosyl cation. 5. The pH-independent, SNl hydrolysis of 3,4-dinitrophenyl galactoside has been measured: it is as fast as that of the galactosyl 3-chloropyridinium ion. 6. Hydrolysis of these two substrates by Mg2+-free enzyme proceeds at very similar rates. 7. It is concluded that loss of both types of aglycone takes place, without acid catalysis, from the first ES complex of substrate and apoenzyme. 8. Data for galactosyl azide and thiopicrate confirm that neither charge nor change of atom is the cause of the differences in behavior between aryl galactosides and galactosylpyridinium salts.


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