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BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 58, Issue 34, Pages 3566-3571Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.9b00298
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
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Decarboxylation reactions from comparable thiamin diphosphate- and thiamin-derived adducts of p-(halomethyl)benzoylformic acids in enzymic and non-enzymic reactions, respectively, reveal critical distinctions in otherwise similar Breslow intermediates. The ratio of protonation to chloride elimination from the Breslow intermediate is 10(2)-fold greater in the enzymic process. This is consistent with a lower intrinsic barrier to proton transfer on the enzyme, implicating formation of a localized tetrahedral (sp(3)) carbanion that is formed as CO2 is produced. In contrast, slower protonation in solution of the decarboxylated intermediate is consistent with formation of a delocalized planar carbanionic enol/enamine. The proposed structural and reactive character of the enzymic Breslow intermediate is consistent with Warshel's general theory of enzymic catalysis, structural characterization of related intermediates, and the lower kinetic barrier in reactions that occur without changes in hybridization.
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