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Nonenzymatic hydrolysis of cocaine via intramolecular acid catalysis
Li, Pan,Zhao, Kang,Deng, Shixian,Landry, Donald W.
, p. 85 - 89 (1999)
The spontaneous hydrolysis of the methyl-ester group of cocaine (1) in vivo contributes to the metabolic clearance of the drug in man. Neighboring- group participation by the tropane N-atom of cocaine in this hydrolysis was suggested by the normal stability of the methyl-ester groups of pseudococaine and N-acylnorcocaine. For cocaine, the relative rate of methyl-ester to benzoyl-ester hydrolysis was ca. 10:1 at pH ≤ 7.4, and, although absolute rates increased with increasing pH, their ratio collapsed at pH > pK(a) (8.6). These data are consistent with intramolecular acid catalysis of alkaline hydrolysis of the cocaine methyl-ester group under physiologic conditions.
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Kovacs et al.
, (1956)
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