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- verb chemistry, ergative To remove one or more
protons from a molecule.
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Examples
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You can't wait to alkylate But first you must deprotonate You add a mole of LDA To overcome that pKa Whoa, you like to think it will react with the stuff, oh yeah It's closer to the truth to say you can't add enough You know you're gonna have to face it, it's resistant to base.
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You can't wait to alkylate But first you must deprotonate You add a mole of LDA To overcome that pKa Whoa, you like to think it will react with the stuff, oh yeah It's closer to the truth to say you can't add enough You know you're gonna have to face it, it's resistant to base.
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Lastly, the conserved E254 residue acts as a general base to deprotonate a water molecule prior to its attack on the thioacyl enzyme intermediate resulting in formation of SA and regeneration of the C288 residue.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Christopher G. Langendorf et al. 2010
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R-OH + NaOH < = > R-O-Na+ + H2O (equilibrium to the left) It should be noted, though, that the bases used to deprotonate alcohols are strong themselves.
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