What do deamination and decarboxylation reactions have in common?
1 Answer
Well, let's take a look at them in acidic conditions.
DECARBOXYLATION
Note the intramolecular rearrangement.
DEAMINATION
Unlike in decarboxylation, where you get a proton in place of a carboxyl group, in deamination, you get a carbonyl in place of an amino group (remember how you remove an imine group by adding acid and water, thereby giving back the carbonyl?).
But see the similarities in the intramolecular rearrangements? Yeah, they both seem to involve multiple arrows in one step. That is hard to make happen.
WHY?
It works in part from the high temperatures, but most importantly, the
CHALLENGE: Try drawing resonance structures to convince yourself that the