Micellar general base-catalysed hydrolysis of diphenyl p-nitrophenyl phosphate

1 January 1974

journal article
research article
Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications

No. 23,p. 971-972
https://doi.org/10.1039/c39740000971

Abstract

Micelles of the functional surfactant (II) derived from histidine catalyse the hydrolysis of diphenyl p-nitrophenyl phosphate; deuterium kinetic solvent isotope effects, k(H₂O)/k(D₂O)ca. 2·5, suggest that (II) acts as a general base rather than as a nucleophilic catalyst.

Keywords

FUNCTIONAL
CATALYSED
GENERAL BASE
HYDROLYSIS
DIPHENYL
ISOTOPE EFFECTS
PHOSPHATE MICELLES
KINETIC SOLVENT
SOLVENT ISOTOPE
HISTIDINE CATALYSE

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