Synergistic effect of iodine and neighboring amine groups on thioester deacylation

JT Doi, TL Carpenter, MM Olmstead…

Index: Doi, Joyce Takahashi; Carpenter, Tracy Louise; Olmstead, Marylin M.; Musker, W. Kenneth Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1983 , vol. 105, # 14 p. 4684 - 4689

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Abstract

Abstract: The synergistic effect of a Lewis acid (I2) and an intramolecular Lewis base facilitates the deacylation of thioesters. When iodine is added to an aqueous solution of S-3- (dimethylamino) propyl thioacetate (I), deacylation is accelerated by a factor of 103-104. A severalfold acceleration is observed for S-2-(2-pyridyl) ethyl thioacetate (11), and no rate enhancement is observed in the reaction of Sn-butyl thioacetate (111). The rate of iodine ...