Organic Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
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ISBN: 9780321803221
Author: Paula Y. Bruice
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Chapter 24.8, Problem 22P

Thiols such as ethanethiol and propanethiol can be used to reduce vitamin K epoxide to vitamin KH2, but they react much more slowly than dihydrolipoate. Explain why this is so.

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