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Mechanism of oxygenation of naphthoquinone derivative
Ham, Seung Wook,Lee, Geun-Hyung
, p. 4087 - 4090 (1998)
Vitamin K in its hydroquinone form, vitamin KH2, is transformed to vitamin K oxide concurrent with the abstraction of the γ-hydrogen of Glu leading to Gla. The nonenzymatic model supports that oxygenation of the monoanion of vitamin KH2 can produce the peroxy anion at the 4-position yielding vitamin K oxide.
