different between enolize vs enolizable

English

Alternative forms

• enolise

Etymology

enol +? -ize.

Verb

enolize (third-person singular simple present enolizes, present participle enolizing, simple past and past participle enolized)

1. (organic chemistry, intransitive) To become an enol or enolate, often through isomerization.
   • 1993, Richard O.C. Norman, James M. Coxon, Principles of Organic Synthesis, 3rd Edition, CRC Press (?ISBN), page 258

     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.

   • 2000, Derek Horton, Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry, Gulf Professional Publishing (?ISBN), page 185

     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.

   • 2005, Thomas Laue, Andreas Plagens, Named Organic Reactions, John Wiley & Sons (?ISBN), page 160

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

   • 2014, Penny Chaloner, Organic Chemistry: A Mechanistic Approach, CRC Press (?ISBN), page 798

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

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

     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.

2. (organic chemistry, transitive) To convert into an enol or enolate.
   • 1999, Enzyme Kinetics and Mechanisms, Part E, Energetics of Enzyme Catalysis, Academic Press (?ISBN), page 23

     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.

Derived terms

• enolization
• enolizable

Translations

English

Etymology

enolize +? -able

Adjective

enolizable (not comparable)

1. (organic chemistry) That may be converted into an enol or enolate.