Meaning of enolize | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To become an enol or enolate, often through isomerization.
   intransitive
2. To convert into an enol or enolate.
   transitive

Examples

“As in base-catalyzed reactions, crossed reactions between two carbonyl compounds each of which can enolize are likely to result in a mixture of four products.”

“These differences have been attributed to the ability of free saccharides to enolize in basic media and to the resistance of hydrazones to do so, as detailed next.”

“The phosphorus tribromide is then formed in situ. Carboxylic acids that enolize easily will also react without a catalyst present.”

“If we condense two species where one cannot enolize, then this principle reduces our number of primary products to two.”

“Pyruvate is known to enolize rapidly under the conditions employed by Oshima and Tamiya; in contrast, the a-keto analogs of a number of other amino acids enolize at much slower rates.”

“It was thus proposed that the matched pK values of the dienolate and of Tyr-14 permitted the hydrogen bond between them to become a very strong one, thus providing the energy to enolize the substrate and form the unstable intermediate.”

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