Abstract

RECENTLY, Sturge and Whittaker1 reported on the relative rates of hydrolysis of a series of straight-chain aliphatic esters by the aliphatic esterase (ali-esterase of Richter and Croft2) of horse plasma. With several notable exceptions, acetates were hydrolysed more rapidly than the corresponding propionate or n-butyrate (that is, the optimal number of carbon atoms in the n-acyl group was usually two) and n-butyl esters were hydrolysed more rapidly than the corresponding n-propyl or n-amyl esters (that is, the optimal number of carbon atoms in the n-alkyl group was usually four).

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