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SUBMITTER: Riuttamaki S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9541288 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) 20220620 45
We demonstrate herein the capacity of simple carboxylate salts - tetrametylammonium and tetramethylguanidinium pivalate - to act as catalysts in the isomerization of β,γ-unsaturated thioesters to α,β-unsaturated thioesters. The carboxylate catalysts gave reaction rates comparable to those obtained with DBU, but with fewer side reactions. The reaction exhibits a normal secondary kinetic isotope effect (k<sub>1H</sub> /k<sub>1D</sub> =1.065±0.026) with a β,γ-deuterated substrate. Computational ana ...[more]