Neighboring Group Effects in Intramolecular Reactions

来自有机动力学计划的RUI赠款支持Curran教授在圣十字学院的本科学习。这些研究集中在作为酶催化模型的分子内反应的强制邻近的作用。 肯普三酸（环己烷三羧酸）的结构类似物与第三轴和赤道基团的变化将被用作10个项目的分子模板。这些独立的项目旨在揭示相邻官能团的空间和电子性质的变化如何影响酰解反应的速率。 在这个合成项目中，Fendler博士将研究相邻基团对肯普三酸酰解速率的空间和电子效应，以模拟这种对酶促反应速率的影响。 这些研究阐明了重要的结构效应，并将为本科生提供跨学科化学研究的优秀实验培训。

This RUI grant from the Organic Dynamics Program supports undergraduate studies of Professor Curran at the College of the Holy Cross. The studies focus on the role of enforced proximity on intramolecular reactions as models for enzyme catalysis. Structural analogues of Kemp's triacid (a cyclohexanetricarboxylic acid) with variation in the third axial and equatorial groups will be used as molecular templates for ten projects. These independent projects are designed to unravel how changes in the steric and electronic nature of neighboring functional groups affect the rate of the acylolysis reaction. In this synthetic project Dr. Fendler will study the steric and electronic effects of neighboring groups on the rate of acylolysis of Kemp s triacid to model such effects on enzymatic reaction rates. The studies clarify important structural effects and will provide undergraduate students with an excellent experimental training in interdisciplinary chemical research.