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		<title>Mechanistic arrow pushing. A proposed addition to its rules.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><span property="dc:creator" resource="http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10706">Henry Rzepa</span></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little while ago, I set out some interpretations of how to push curly arrows. I also appreciate that some theoretically oriented colleagues regard the technique as neither useful nor in the least rigorous, whereas towards the other extreme many synthetically minded chemists view the ability to push a reasonable set of arrows for a proposed mechanism as of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secrets of a university lecturer: 1981-1983.</title>
		<link>http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10699</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><span property="dc:creator" resource="http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10699">Henry Rzepa</span></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Flash]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many moons ago, when I was a young(ish) lecturer, and much closer in time to my laboratory roots of organic synthesis, I made some chemistry videos. One of these has resurfaced, somewhat  (to me at least) unexpectedly. Nowadays of course, such demonstrations are all carried out using virtual simulations (Flash animations etc) as the equipment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computers 1967-2013: a personal perspective. Part 5. Network bandwidth.</title>
		<link>http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10688</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><span property="dc:creator" resource="http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10688">Henry Rzepa</span></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[acoustic coupler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Addison-Wesley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Austin Texas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[building I]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cambridge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electronics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Global Intelligence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Imperial College]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[operating system]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quantum chemical calculations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Samuel Butler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[University College London]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a time of change, we often do not notice that Δ = ∫δ. Here I am thinking of network bandwidth, and my personal experience of it over a 46 year period. I first encountered bandwidth in 1967 (although it was not called that then). I was writing Algol code to compute the value of π, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What can chemistry learn from photos?</title>
		<link>http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10679</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2013 07:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><span property="dc:creator" resource="http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10679">Henry Rzepa</span></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chemical IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digital photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[engineer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HTML]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[metadata]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RDF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[search term]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Bachrach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago, we published an article which drew a formal analogy between chemistry and iTunes (sic). iTunes was the first really large commercial digital music library, and a feature under-the-skin was the use of meta-data to aid discoverability of any of the 10 million (26M in 2013) or so individual items in the store.‡ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mechanism of the Van Leusen reaction.</title>
		<link>http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10656</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 13:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><span property="dc:creator" resource="http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10656">Henry Rzepa</span></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reaction Mechanism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tutorial material]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[low energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[low free-energy barrier]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a follow-up to comment posted by Ryan, who asked about isocyanide’s role (in the form of the anion of tosyl isocyanide, or TosMIC): &#8220;In Van Leusen, it (the isocyanide) acts as an electrophile&#8221;. The Wikipedia article (recently updated by myself) shows nucleophilic attack by an oxy-anion on the carbon of the C≡N group, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How should one represent the anion of TosMIC?</title>
		<link>http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10641</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 09:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><span property="dc:creator" resource="http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10641">Henry Rzepa</span></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interesting chemistry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ugi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Van Leusen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The title of this post comes from a comment posted by Ryan, who asks about isocyanide’s role (in the form of the anion of tosyl isocyanide, or TosMIC) in two named reactions, Van Leusen and Ugi FCR.  &#8220;In Van Leusen, it (the isocyanide) acts as an electrophile: however, in Ugi, it acts as a nucleophile&#8221;. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Woodward pericyclic example dissected: all is not what it seems.</title>
		<link>http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10611</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 08:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><span property="dc:creator" resource="http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10611">Henry Rzepa</span></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is another example gleaned from that Woodward essay of 1967 (Chem. Soc. Special Publications (Aromaticity), 1967, 21, 217-249), where all might not be what it seems. Woodward notes that the reaction between the (highly reactive) 1 does not occur. This is attributed to it being a disallowed π6 + π2 cycloaddition (blue + magenta [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Woodward&#8217;s symmetry considerations applied to electrocyclic reactions.</title>
		<link>http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10518</link>
		<comments>http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10518#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 09:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><span property="dc:creator" resource="http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10518">Henry Rzepa</span></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[electrocyclic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[final product]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gerhard Fonken]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niels Bohr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pericyclic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[professor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Woodward]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes the originators of seminal theories in chemistry write a personal and anecdotal account of their work. Niels Bohr was one such and four decades later Robert Woodward wrote &#8220;The conservation of orbital symmetry&#8221; (Chem. Soc. Special Publications (Aromaticity), 1967, 21, 217-249; it is not online and so no doi can be given). Much interesting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Au and Pt π-complexes of cyclobutadiene.</title>
		<link>http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10498</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 19:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><span property="dc:creator" resource="http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10498">Henry Rzepa</span></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hypervalency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interesting chemistry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African Union]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the preceding post, I introduced Dewar&#8217;s π-complex theory for alkene-metal compounds, outlining the molecular orbital analysis he presented, in which the filled π-MO of the alkene donates into a Ag+ empty metal orbital and back-donation occurs from a filled metal orbital into the alkene π* MO. Here I play a little &#8220;what if&#8221; game with this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The π-complex theory of metal-alkene compounds.</title>
		<link>http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10448</link>
		<comments>http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10448#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 19:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><span property="dc:creator" resource="http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10448">Henry Rzepa</span></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interesting chemistry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alkene-metal interaction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alkene-metal π-complex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cation Ag]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dewar]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[metal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[metal d-orbitals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[naked metal cations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ZTE C79 Cellular Phone]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The period 1951&#8211;1954 was a golden one for structural chemistry; proteins, DNA, Ferrocene (1952) and the one I discuss here, a bonding model for Zeise&#8217;s salt (3). In &#8221;A review of π Complex Theory&#8221;,  Bull. Soc. Chim. Fr., 1951, 1 8 , C79 (it is not online) M. J. S. Dewar sets out his theory of the role [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Concerted 1,4-addition of thioacetic acid: a (requested) reality check.</title>
		<link>http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10408</link>
		<comments>http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10408#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 15:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><span property="dc:creator" resource="http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10408">Henry Rzepa</span></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interesting chemistry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reaction Mechanism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lukas, who occasionally comments on this blog, sent me the following challenge. In a recent article he had proposed that the stereochemical outcome (Z) of reaction between a butenal and thioacetic acid as shown below arose by an unusual concerted cycloaddtion involving an S-H bond. He wrote in the article &#8220;&#8230;this scheme &#8230; recommends itself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transition states for the (base) catalysed ring opening of propene epoxide.</title>
		<link>http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10367</link>
		<comments>http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10367#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 18:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><span property="dc:creator" resource="http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10367">Henry Rzepa</span></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reaction Mechanism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tutorial material]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The previous post described how the acid catalysed ring opening of propene epoxide by an alcohol (methanol) is preceded by pre-protonation of the epoxide oxygen to form a &#8220;hidden intermediate&#8221; on the concerted intrinsic reaction pathway to ring opening. Here I take a look at the mechanism where a strong base is present, modelled by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hidden intermediates in the (acid catalysed) ring opening of propene epoxide.</title>
		<link>http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10279</link>
		<comments>http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10279#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 05:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><span property="dc:creator" resource="http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10279">Henry Rzepa</span></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interesting chemistry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reaction Mechanism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CF 3 CO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[good model for the subsequent transition state]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lower free energy barrier]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post on the topic, I remarked how the regiospecific ethanolysis of propene epoxide could be quickly and simply rationalised by inspecting the localized NBO orbital calculated for either the neutral or the protonated epoxide. This is an application of Hammond&#8217;s postulate[ in extrapolating the properties of a reactant to its reaction transition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why diphenyl peroxide does not exist.</title>
		<link>http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10252</link>
		<comments>http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10252#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><span property="dc:creator" resource="http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10252">Henry Rzepa</span></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michael Dewar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few posts back, I explored the &#8220;benzidine rearrangement&#8221; of diphenyl hydrazine. This reaction requires diprotonation to proceed readily, but we then discovered that replacing one NH by an O as in N,O-diphenyl hydroxylamine required only monoprotonation to undergo an equivalent facile rearrangement. So replacing both NHs by O to form diphenyl peroxide (Ph-O-O-Ph) completes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to predict the regioselectivity of epoxide ring opening.</title>
		<link>http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10237</link>
		<comments>http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10237#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 12:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><span property="dc:creator" resource="http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10237">Henry Rzepa</span></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[10.1021]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[lowest energy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently got an email from a student asking about the best way of rationalising epoxide ring opening using some form of molecule orbitals. This reminded me of the famous experiment involving propene epoxide. In the presence of 0.3% NaOH, propene epoxide reacts with ethanol at the unsubstituted carbon (~82% compared with 56% in pure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>X-ray analysis and absolute configuration determination using porous complexes.</title>
		<link>http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10220</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 07:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><span property="dc:creator" resource="http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10220">Henry Rzepa</span></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interesting chemistry]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[marine natural product]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[metal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is another in the occasional series of &#8220;what a neat molecule&#8221;. In this case, more of a &#8220;what a neat idea&#8221;. The s-triazine below, when coordinated to eg ZnI2, forms what is called a metal-organic-framework, or MOF. A recent article shows how such frameworks can be used to help solve a long-standing problem in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intermediates in oxime formation from hydroxylamine and propanone: now you see them, now you don&#8217;t.</title>
		<link>http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10184</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 18:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><span property="dc:creator" resource="http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10184">Henry Rzepa</span></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent theme here has been to subject to scrutiny well-known mechanisms supposedly involving intermediates. These transients can often involve the creation/annihilation of charge separation resulting from  proton transfers, something that a cyclic mechanism can avoid. Here I revisit the formation of an oxime from hydroxylamine and propanone, but with one change. In the earlier [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feist&#8217;s acid. Stereochemistry galore.</title>
		<link>http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10145</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><span property="dc:creator" resource="http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10145">Henry Rzepa</span></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interesting chemistry]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[chemical synthesis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[lower energy triplet state]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in the days (1893) when few compounds were known, new ones could end up being named after the discoverer. Thus Feist is known for the compound bearing his name; the 2,3 carboxylic acid of methylenecyclopropane (1, with Me replaced by CO2H). Compound 1 itself nowadays is used to calibrate chiroptical calculations, which is what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The mechanism of ester hydrolysis via alkyl oxygen cleavage under a quantum microscope</title>
		<link>http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10073</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><span property="dc:creator" resource="http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10073">Henry Rzepa</span></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reaction Mechanism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[acetic acid]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My previous dissection of the mechanism for ester hydrolysis dealt with the acyl-oxygen cleavage route (red bond). There is a much rarer alternative: alkyl-oxygen cleavage (green bond) which I now place under the microscope. Here, guanidine is used as a general acid/base, which results in a reasonable activation barrier for the hydrolysis (using pure water [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A sideways look at the mechanism of ester hydrolysis.</title>
		<link>http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10015</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 07:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><span property="dc:creator" resource="http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=10015">Henry Rzepa</span></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reaction Mechanism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tutorial material]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALSO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[co-operative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy well]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ester hydrolysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shallow energy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mechanism of ester hydrolysis is a staple of examination questions in organic chemistry. To get a good grade, one might have to reproduce something like the below. Here, I subject that answer to a reality check. In this scheme, HA is a general acid, R=Me, and the net result is to break what is [...]]]></description>
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