Sulphinamoylacetates as sulphine precursors. Mechanism of basic hydrolysis and scheme of irreversible inactivation of cinnamoyl alcohol dehydrogenase, an enzyme of the lignification process
presence of general acid catalysis. For t-butyl N-(2-hydroxyphenyl)sulphinamoylisobutyrate where this mechanism of elimination is impossible, a BAc2 attack by hydroxide ion at the sulphur atom takes place. From these mechanisms and the results of complexation of zinc(II) cations by sulphinamoylacetates, a possible scheme for the irreversible inactivation of the title zinc metalloenzyme is proposed