Hydrophobic Environment (IMAGE)

Tokyo Metropolitan University

Hydrophobic Environment

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Simplified schematic showing how alkyl acetates with long tails cannot approach acidic sulfo sites (blue discs) in hydrophilic environments; however, they can approach hydrophobic environments with more methyl groups (small orange spheres), leading to a higher turnover frequency (TOF), a measure of how effective a catalyst is.

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Hiroki Miura

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