A simple method to determine kinetic deuterium isotope effects provides evidence that proton transfer to carbon proceeds over and not through the reaction barrier.
Tsang
Wing-Yin
WY
Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 14260, USA.
Richard
John P
JP
D002244:Carbon / Q000737:chemistry*; D003903:Deuterium; D007700:Kinetics; D015394:Molecular Structure; D011522:Protons
D011522:Protons; D002244:Carbon; D003903:Deuterium