enolize

present singular third person enolizes · participle present enolizing · participle past enolized · past enolized · alternative enolise

1. intransitivechemistryTo become an enol or enolate, often through isomerization.

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

   2014, Penny Chaloner, Organic Chemistry: A Mechanistic Approach, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 798

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   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.

   1993, Richard O.C. Norman, James M. Coxon, Principles of Organic Synthesis, 3rd Edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 258

   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.

   2000, Derek Horton, Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry, Gulf Professional Publishing, →ISBN, page 185

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

   2005, Thomas Laue, Andreas Plagens, Named Organic Reactions, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 160

   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.

   2016, Paul D. Boyer, Henry Lardy, Karl Myrbäck, Group Transfer Syntheses Coupled to ATP Cleavage, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 217

2. transitivechemistryTo convert into an enol or enolate.

   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.

   1999, Enzyme Kinetics and Mechanisms, Part E, Energetics of Enzyme Catalysis, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 23