Antibody catalysis of cyclohexadienone rearrangments
 Catalytic antibodies are employed for catalyzing rearrangement reactions involving carbon-carbon bonds. The catalytic antibodies are generated using haptens that are transition state analogs of the such rearrangement reactions. More particularly, the haptens dispslay an electrostatic complementarity with the transition state. Since the formation of a transient positive charge in the migrating bond is a general feature of nucleophilic 1,2-shifts, it is disclosed that haptens for generating catalytic antibody directed to such reactions must incorporate such charge. Antibody catalysis of the dienone-phenol rearrangement is shown to catalyze both the hydronium ion promoted pathway and the spontaneous rearrangement pathway, indicating that the antibody stabilizes the localized positive charge of the transition state. 
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Yuanwei Richard A. Jean-Louis
Chen Lerner Reymond