Palladium (II) coordination complexes catalyze the reaction of alcohols with ketones to yield ethers. During the catalytic cycle, the alcohol adds selectively to the β-carbon (anti-Markovnikov). In this work, mechanism and kinetics for the reaction of methanol with methyl vinyl ketone (MVK), being catalyzed by Pd, has been theoretically investigated in detail. Using quantum mechanical approach,...

Using Hartree–Fock (HF) and ِِDensity Functional Theory (DFT) calculations the thermodynamic properties such as thermal energy , , thermal enthalpy , , thermal entropy , , thermal Gibbs free energy , , heat capacity ,Cv, and molecular structures of several species involving in keto↔enol tautomerism related to acetaldehyde (A), 5,5-dimethyl-1,3-cyclohexanedione (dimedone) and  acetylacetone (AA) h...

palladium (ii) coordination complexes catalyze the reaction of alcohols with ketones to yield ethers. during the catalytic cycle, the alcohol adds selectively to the β-carbon (anti-markovnikov). in this work, mechanism and kinetics for the reaction of methanol with methyl vinyl ketone (mvk), being catalyzed by pd, has been theoretically investigated in detail. using quantum mechanical approach,...

The present paper describes a new enzyme from animal tissues which catalyzes the keto-enol tautomeriaation of the phenylpyruvic acids. Preliminary accounts of this tautomerase have been published (1, 2). The enzyme has not yet proved to be essential in any biological reaction, but a physiological role may be expected since specific tautomers of a-keto acids are substrates or products in some re...

Studies of the non-enzymatic decarboxylation of /3-keto acids have shown that it is the keto form of the 8-keto acid which loses CO2 to form an enol of the product. This was demonstrated for dimethylacetoacetic acid by Pedersen (1) and for dimethyloxalacetic acid by Steinberger and Westheimer (2). These latter authors studied the catalytic effect of metal ions on the decarboxylation reaction an...

using hartree–fock (hf) and ِِdensity functional theory (dft) calculations the thermodynamic properties such as thermal energy , , thermal enthalpy , , thermal entropy , , thermal gibbs free energy , , heat capacity ,cv, and molecular structures of several species involving in keto↔enol tautomerism related to acetaldehyde (a), 5,5-dimethyl-1,3-cyclohexanedione (dimedone) and  acetylacetone (aa) h...

Palladium (II) coordination complexes catalyze the reaction of alcohols with ketones to yield ethers. During the catalytic cycle, the alcohol adds selectively to the β-carbon (anti-Markovnikov). In this work, mechanism and kinetics for the reaction of methanol with methyl vinyl ketone (MVK), being catalyzed by Pd, has been theoretically investigated in detail. Using quantum mechanical approach,...

In a combined study on the photophysics of 2-(2'-hydroxyphenyl)-benzothiazole (HBT) in polar acetonitrile utilizing ultrafast infrared spectroscopy and quantum chemical calculations, we show that a branching of reaction pathways occurs on femtosecond time scales. Apart from the excited-state intramolecular hydrogen transfer (ESIHT) converting electronically excited enol tautomer into the keto t...

From quantum mechanics calculations we confirm that the naturally occurring enol lancifodilactone G is stable over the keto form (by 2.6 kcal/mol in water), the only known stable aliphatic enol (devoid of conjugated or bulky aromatics and lacking a 1,3-diketone structural motif known to stabilize enols). We determine architectural elements responsible for the enol stabilization and find a mecha...

The enol of a-cyano-a-phenylacetic acid was observed as a short-lived transient species formed upon flash photolytic generation of phenylcyanoketene by a photo-Wolff reaction of a-cyano-a-diazoacetophenone followed by hydration of the ketene. Rates of ketonization of the enol were measured in dilute hydrochloric acid solutions and acetic acid, biphosphate ion, tris(hydroxymethyl)methylamine, an...