The phrase "acting as base" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where something is functioning as a foundation or starting point for something else.
Example: "In this experiment, the solution is acting as base for the chemical reaction."
Alternatives: "serving as a base" or "functioning as a base".
Thus, no amino acid of the enzyme backbone is close enough to promote deprotonation of the 3′-hydroxy moiety of benzylisoquinoline substrate rotamer, if exchanged to a residue acting as base.
This proton-transfer mechanism cannot precisely apply to RNAPs, because the placement of water acting as base in the DNAP η structure is in the position of the 2′-OH of the ribose sugar in RNAPs, but presumably in RNAPs a related mechanism might appertain.
Hundreds of residents were evacuated, many to a nearby community hall that is acting as a base for residents.
A proton channel allows a hydrogen oxidation catalyst to operate at a moderate overpotential with water acting as a base.
Second, this hierarchical setting yields a distribution on the set of possible priors, with the choice [19] acting as the base distribution.
When working with molecules that are capable of acting as a base some amount of protonation is inevitable and this may dramatically change the physicochemical properties of the composite materials.
The next route explored was with ethoxide acting as a base, abstracting the allylic proton to give the intermediate 8e-4.
Our implementation platform comprised a PC (running the cygwin environment on Windows XP) acting as a base station and TelosB motes [19] (commercially available from Crossbow Technology Inc).
Agostic interactions are identified by a short M∙∙∙HC distance; these occur not primarily because the C H bond is acting as a base, but because the tilt of the CH3 group allows the σCH3 orbital to pick up an additional stabilising interaction from a different lower energy d-orbital.
The proximity of Krak des Chevaliers to Muslim territories allowed it to take on an offensive role, acting as a base from which neighbouring areas could be attacked.
Started by poet, artist and former Crass drummer Penny Rimbaud in 1967 – and operating as a true open door building ever since – Dial House has long fostered creativity, freedom and political agitation, as well as acting as a base for Crass during the 1980s.
