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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Oct 31.
Published in final edited form as: Org Biomol Chem. 2017 Oct 31;15(42):8856–8866. doi: 10.1039/c7ob01652b

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Reaction coordinate profiles which show: (1) The similarity between the activation barrier for nonenzymatic decarboxylation of OMP and the thermodynamic barrier for formation of the unstable vinyl carbanion reaction intermediate.2426 (2) The similar effect of the protein catalyst on the activation barrier for nonenzymatic decarboxylation of OMP and the thermodynamic reaction barrier.