Résumé Aminolysis of carbamic esters, a model of the intermediate carboxybiotin in enzymatic carboxylations was studied in organic medium in the presence of a divalent cation. This study establishes electrostatic catalysis of aminolysis, the rate determining step of which is the collapse of the tetrahedral intermediate principally by carbon nitrogen bond breacking. The results also account for the role of the divalent cation present in the ...