id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 3484zg66p0s Brandon Edward Haines Computational Studies on the Mechanism of HMG-CoA Reductase and the Grignard SRN1 Reaction 2014 .txt text/plain 377 15 37 The enzyme is of considerable biomedical relevance because of the public health impact of its inhibitors called statins that are prescribed to control cholesterol levels and reduce the risks associated with coronary heart disease. The reaction involves a single electron transfer and was originally classified as a nucleophilic radical substitution (SRN1) reaction until radical clock experiments suggested that there is no radical intermediate. cache/3484zg66p0s.txt txt/3484zg66p0s.txt