Catalysis (usually for
hydron transfer) by a bifunctional
chemical species involving a mechanism in which both
functional groups are implicated in the
rate-controlling step, so that the corresponding
catalytic coefficient is larger than that expected for
catalysis by chemical species containing only one of these functional groups. The term should
not be used to describe the
concerted action of two different catalysts ('
concerted catalysis').
Source:
PAC, 1994, 66, 1077
(Glossary of terms used in physical organic chemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 1994))
on page 1089
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A. D. McNaught and A. Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997).
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