Electron transfer. 83. Reductions of unsaturated esters with vitamin B12s [cob(I)alamin]
Electron transfer. 83. Reductions of unsaturated esters with vitamin B12s [cob(I)alamin]
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电子转移。
DOI:
10.1021/ic00246a031
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发表时间:
1986
影响因子:
4.6
通讯作者:
E. Gould
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作者:
G. Pillai;E. Gould
The diesters of maleic and fumaric acid are rapidly reduced to succinic esters by vitamin B12s (cob (I) alamin) in aqueous media. The dimethyl ester of acetylenedicarboxylic acid is reduced in two stages: the first (very rapid) stage yields a fumaric ester, which is then converted more slowly to succinate. Reactions are first order each in redox partners and are fastest at highest acidities. Kinetic behavior is consistent with the partition of B12s into an inactive nonprotonated, a moderately reactive monoprotonated, and a very reactive diprotonated form. It is proposed that the latter is a Co-H species, having hydride-like character, which is oxidized at a specific rate> 104 M" 1 s" 1 (25 C). The relative reactivities of acetylenic and olefinic esters (rate ratios 4—105) indicate that these reactions, like those of the parent diacids, are heterolytic (2e) rather than homolytic (le) in nature. The reduction of acetylenedicarboxylate to fumarate is a net trans addition for which an olefinic-carbanion intermediate, which may maintain its geometric configuration, is suggested.