Chapter 23: Q2P (page 1069)
What are the products of the following reaction?
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Enzyme
Enzymes are mostly proteins which increase the speed of a chemical reaction or some metabolic reaction.
Dehydrogenase enzymes are enzymes which remove hydrogen.
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Enzyme catalyzed reaction with pyridine nucleoclide as coenzyme
Isocitrate dehydrogenase is an enzyme which catalyze oxidation of secondary alcohol group in isocitate to ketone. The oxidizing agent used here is NAD+ .
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Final products of given reaction
As NAD+ will oxidise the secondary alcohol to ketone so the products of reaction will be as follows:
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