What is the difference between hydrolysis and oxidation

Hydrolysis In a reaction with water, a bond in the compound is broken, resulting in two compounds. At the same time the water molecule splits in two, with a hydrogen transferring to one of the compounds and a hydroxide to the other compound. The enzymes of hydrolysis reactions include esterases, peptidases, and amidases.

Enzymes involved in reduction reactions are called reductases. An example of an oxidation reaction is the hydroxylation of amphetamine to 4-hydroxyamphetamine and norephedrine. The enzymes of oxidation include mixed-function oxidases, monoxygenases, and cytochrome P enzymes.

This version of the course is no longer available. In this work, the relationships between these reactions were studied. There are mainly two hydrolyses and two oxidations occurring in the conversion: initial hydrolysis from cellulose to monosaccharides and deep hydrolysis from monosaccharides to levulinic acid ; catalytic oxidation from monosaccharides to FA and ordinary oxidation from levulinic acid to acetic acid.

Among these four reactions, catalytic oxidation to FA and deep hydrolysis to byproducts are competitive. The increasing rate of deep hydrolysis is faster than that of catalytic oxidation, when temperature is increased. Catalytic oxidation is promoted and deep hydrolysis is suppressed, when the O 2 pressure is increased. Moreover, deep hydrolysis is promoted and catalytic oxidation is suppressed, when H 2 SO 4 concentration is increased.

The hydrolysis—oxidation pathway of this conversion was proposed. Thus, the byproducts could be inhibited, and FA-oriented transformation could be realized. Niu, Y. Hou, S.

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