Biomimetic trifunctional organocatalyst showing a great acceleration for the transesterification between vinyl ester and alcohol
- 22 January 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- No. 8,p. 957-959
- https://doi.org/10.1039/b718763g
Abstract
Trifunctional organocatalysts 1a and 1b 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.This publication has 38 references indexed in Scilit:
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