Biomimetic trifunctional organocatalyst showing a great acceleration for the transesterification between vinyl ester and alcohol.

Tadashi Ema, Daisuke Tanida, Tatsuya Matsukawa, Takashi Sakai

Division of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Tsushima, Okayama 700-8530, Japan. ema@cc.okayama-u.ac.jp

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) 2008 Feb 28

filter terms:

Trifunctional organocatalysts and mimicking the active site of serine hydrolases showed high catalytic activity with up to a 3,700,000-fold acceleration for the acyl-transfer reactions from vinyl trifluoroacetate to alcohol.

Citation

Tadashi Ema, Daisuke Tanida, Tatsuya Matsukawa, Takashi Sakai. Biomimetic trifunctional organocatalyst showing a great acceleration for the transesterification between vinyl ester and alcohol. Chemical communications (Cambridge, England). 2008 Feb 28(8):957-9