Balancing Kinetic and Thermodynamic Control: The Mechanism of Carbocation Cyclization by Squalene Cyclase

Medicine & Life Sciences

• squalene cyclase 100%
• Cyclization 69%
• Thermodynamics 56%
• Kinetics 33%
• squalene-hopene cyclase 24%
• diploptene 24%
• Carbon 23%
• Squalene 17%
• Molecular Dynamics Simulation 12%
• Enzymes 12%
• Cations 11%

Chemical Compounds

• Squalene 60%
• Carbocation 54%
• Hopanoid 40%
• Cyclization Reaction 34%
• Thermodynamics 28%
• Simulation 14%
• Ring Expansion 13%
• Surface Free Energy 13%
• Product Distribution 12%
• Carbon Atom 10%
• Gibbs Free Energy 8%
• Molecular Dynamics 8%
• Cation 6%
• Reaction Yield 4%

Engineering & Materials Science

• Cyclization 81%
• Thermodynamics 39%
• Free energy 27%
• Enzymes 26%
• Enzyme kinetics 18%
• Carbon 17%
• Positive ions 14%
• Molecular dynamics 13%
• Computer simulation 6%