Efficient catalytic hydrolysis of disaccharides by cerium(IV) ion at pH 7

Article abstract of DOI:10.1246/cl.1997.379

Ce^IV(NH₄)₂(NO₃)₆ effectively catalyses hydrolysis of various disaccharides such as sucrose, maltose, lactose, and cellobiose at pH 7.0, and activation energy for sucrose hydrolysis was found to be 14.4 kcal mol^-1, which is remarkably smaller than that by 0.18 N HCI, 30 kcal mo^-1.