QUANTITATIVE MODELING OF PROXIMITY EFFECTS ON ORGANIC-REACTIVITY
QUANTITATIVE MODELING OF PROXIMITY EFFECTS ON ORGANIC-REACTIVITY
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DOI:
10.1021/ar00172a003
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发表时间:
1990-04-01
影响因子:
18.3
通讯作者:
DORIGO, AE
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作者:
HOUK, KN;TUCKER, JA;DORIGO, AE
Understanding the dramatic catalytic power of en-zymes is one of the most challenging and exciting chemical problems of our time. In 1948, Pauling1 proposed that enzymes are complementary to the transition states of the reactions that they catalyze, and that enzymatic catalysis results from stabilization of the transition state by attractive interactions with the en-zyme. The close analogy between enzymatic and in-tramolecular reactions was recognized subsequently and exploited to develop chemical models for enzymatic reactions. Subsequently, a number of theoriesbased on structure-reactivity relationships in intramolecular reactions have been advanced to account for the rates of enzyme-catalyzed reactions. Our successful use of force-field transition-state modeling to rationalize the stereochemistry of organic reactions2 led us to inves-tigate a similar approach for the understanding and prediction of the relative rates of intramolecular reac-tions. This Account describes our development of force-field models to provide quantitative predictions of intramolecular reaction rates and to compare these with intermolecular reactivities. Bruice’s3 pioneering studies of intramolecular nu-cleophilic catalysis led him to conclude that enzymes