nucleophilic catalysis
Catalysis
by a
Lewis base
, involving formation of a
Lewis adduct
as a
reaction intermediate
. For example, the
hydrolysis
of acetic anhydride in aqueous solution catalysed by pyridine:
See also:
electrophilic
,
nucleophilicity
Source:
PAC, 1994,
66
, 1077
(Glossary of terms used in physical organic chemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 1994))
on page 1146
