Intramolecular attack by the hydroxy group on phosphate diesters is both general acid and general base catalysed
- 1 January 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 24,p. 1769-1770
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39920001769
Abstract
Buffers catalysing the hydrolysis of a phosphate diester with a neighbouring nucleophilic OH group act as general acids, general bases, or both, depending on their pKa, though the rate determining step remains the same.Keywords
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