- Substrate-controlled Diastereoselective Michael Addition of Alkylidene Malonates by Grignard Reagents
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Herein is described a diastereoselective Michael addition of Grignard reagents to a, b- unsaturated diethyl malonates incorporated with a 2-oxazolidone chiral auxiliary. The catalyst-free Michael addition proceeds with good chemical efficiency and excellent stereoselectivity; and it provides new thoughts to the asymmetric synthesis of b-substituted b3 amino acid derivatives. Optically active b-amino acid derivatives are commonly found in various biologically active compounds from natural sources and organic synthesis.1, 2 They have been also widely adopted as building blocks for the construction of a/b-peptide foldamers which can mimic biological function of natural a-peptide of enzymes, and are less susceptible to protease degradation than the latter ones.3-7 Therefore, the development of synthetic procedures to prepare b-amino acids is a relevant endeavor. The synthesis of b-amino acids in enantiomerically pure forms continues to attract interest.8-14 The chirality conformation of b-amino acids is generally originated from chiral starting materials, chiral auxiliaries or chiral catalysts. Many approaches were developed for the preparation of substituted b-amino acids, such as hydrogenation of enamines catalyzed by rhodium or palladium with chiral phosphepine ligands15, 16, addition of aromatic amines to a-b unsaturated imides catalyzed by palladium complex17, thiourea catalyzed asymmetric Mannich reaction18 and chiral amine catalysed aza-Michael addition19-22. Although various methods for the synthesis of substituted b-amino acids have been developed with good yield and stereoselectivity, arduous availability of chiral catalysts is still an unavoidable obstacle for the wide use of these methods. Thus, it is still desirable to develop novel catalyst-free strategies to construct these privileged skeletons. The use of chiral auxiliaries is another important strategy to synthesize of b-amino acids. In this context, Goodman et al. reported pseudoephedrine as a chiral auxiliary for the synthesis of a-substituted b-amino acids23. Juaristi et al. accomplished diastereoselective synthesis of b-amino acids using hexahydrobenzoxazolidinones3. These methods provided practical approaches for the synthesis of a-substituted b-amino acids (b2-amino acids). But for b-substituted b-amino acids (b3-amino acids), it is still challenging.
- Zhou, Wei,Xiao, Qingwei,Chang, Yuanyuan,Liu, Qifa,Zang, Xiaohao,Hu, Mengmeng,Zeng, Xi,Du, Zhiyun,Zhong, Guifa
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- Glutamate as an Efficient Amine Donor for the Synthesis of Chiral β- and γ-Amino Acids Using Transaminase
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A recyclable glutamate amine donor system employing transaminase (TA), glutamate dehydrogenase (GluDH) and mutant formate dehydrogenase (FDHm) was developed, wherein amine donor Glu was regenerated using GluDH and thereby circumvented the inhibition of TA by α-ketoglutarate. Various enantiopure β-, γ-amino acids, and amines were successfully synthesized with high conversions and excellent enantiomeric excess using this system.
- Kim, Geon-Hee,Jeon, Hyunwoo,Khobragade, Taresh P.,Patil, Mahesh D.,Sung, Sihyong,Yoon, Sanghan,Won, Yumi,Sarak, Sharad,Yun, Hyungdon
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p. 1437 - 1440
(2019/02/06)
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- Characterization of a new nitrilase from Hoeflea phototrophica DFL-43 for a two-step one-pot synthesis of (S)-β-amino acids
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A nitrilase from Hoeflea phototrophica DFL-43 (HpN) demonstrating excellent catalytic activity towards benzoylacetonitrile was identified from a nitrilase tool-box, which was developed previously in our laboratory for (R)-o-chloromandelic acid synthesis from o-chloromandelonitrile. The HpN was overexpressed in Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3), purified to homogeneity by nickel column affinity chromatography, and its biochemical properties were studied. The HpN was very stable at 30–40?°C, and highly active over a wide range of pH values (pH 6.0–10.0). In addition, the HpN could tolerate against several hydrophilic organic solvents. Steady-state kinetics indicated that HpN was highly active towards benzoylacetonitrile, giving a KM of 4.2?mM and a kcat of 170?s?1, the latter of which is ca. fivefold higher than the highest record reported so far. A cascade reaction for the synthesis of optically pure (S)-β-phenylalanine from benzoylacetonitrile was developed by coupling HpN with an ω-transaminase from Polaromonas sp. JS666 in toluene-water biphasic reaction system using β-alanine as an amino donor. Various (S)-β-amino acids could be produced from benzoylacetonitrile derivatives with moderate to high conversions (73–99%) and excellent enantioselectivity (> 99% ee). These results are significantly advantageous over previous studies, indicating a great potential of this cascade reaction for the practical synthesis of (S)-β-phenylalanine in the future.
- Zhang, Zhi-Jun,Cai, Rui-Feng,Xu, Jian-He
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p. 6047 - 6056
(2018/05/15)
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- Influence of the aromatic moiety in α- And β-arylalanines on their biotransformation with phenylalanine 2,3-aminomutase from: Pantoea agglomerans
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In this study enantiomer selective isomerization of various racemic α- and β-arylalanines catalysed by phenylalanine 2,3-aminomutase from Pantoea agglomerans (PaPAM) was investigated. Both α- and β-arylalanines were accepted as substrates when the aryl moiety was relatively small, like phenyl, 2-, 3-, 4-fluorophenyl or thiophen-2-yl. While 2-substituted α-phenylalanines bearing bulky electron withdrawing substituents did not react, the corresponding substituted β-aryl analogues were converted rapidly. Conversion of 3- and 4-substituted α-arylalanines happened smoothly, while conversion of the corresponding β-arylalanines was poor or non-existent. In the range of pH 7-9 there was no significant influence on the conversion of racemic α- or β-(thiophen-2-yl)alanines, whereas increasing the concentration of ammonia (ammonium carbonate from 50 to 1000 mM) inhibited the isomerization progressively and decreased the amount of the by-product (i.e. (E)-3-(thiophen-2-yl)acrylic acid was detected). In all cases, the high ee values of the products indicated excellent enantiomer selectivity and stereospecificity of the isomerization except for (S)-2-nitro-α-phenylalanine (ee 92%) from the β-isomer. Substituent effects were rationalized by computational modelling revealing that one of the main factors controlling biocatalytic activity was the energy difference between the covalent regioisomeric enzyme-substrate complexes.
- Varga, Andrea,Bánóczi, Gergely,Nagy, Botond,Bencze, László Csaba,To?a, Monica Ioana,Gellért, ákos,Irimie, Florin Dan,Rétey, János,Poppe, László,Paizs, Csaba
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p. 56412 - 56420
(2016/07/06)
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- The bacterial ammonia lyase EncP: A tunable biocatalyst for the synthesis of unnatural amino acids
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Enzymes of the class I lyase-like family catalyze the asymmetric addition of ammonia to arylacrylates, yielding high value amino acids as products. Recent examples include the use of phenylalanine ammonia lyases (PALs), either alone or as a gateway to deracemization cascades (giving (S)- or (R)-α-phenylalanine derivatives, respectively), and also eukaryotic phenylalanine aminomutases (PAMs) for the synthesis of the (R)-β-products. Herein, we present the investigation of another family member, EncP from Streptomyces maritimus, thereby expanding the biocatalytic toolbox and enabling the production of the missing (S)-β-isomer. EncP was found to convert a range of arylacrylates to a mixture of (S)-α- and (S)-β-arylalanines, with regioselectivity correlating to the strength of electron-withdrawing/-donating groups on the ring of each substrate. The low regioselectivity of the wild-type enzyme was addressed via structure-based rational design to generate three variants with altered preference for either α- or β-products. By examining various biocatalyst/substrate combinations, it was demonstrated that the amination pattern of the reaction could be tuned to achieve selectivities between 99:1 and 1:99 for β:α-product ratios as desired.
- Weise, Nicholas J.,Parmeggiani, Fabio,Ahmed, Syed T.,Turner, Nicholas J.
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p. 12977 - 12983
(2015/10/28)
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- Enantioselective acylation of β-phenylalanine acid and its derivatives catalyzed by penicillin G acylase from alcaligenes faecalis
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This study developed a simple, efficient method for producing racemic β-phenylalanine acid (BPA) and its derivatives via the enantioselective acylation catalyzed by the penicillin G acylase from Alcaligenes faecalis (Af-PGA). When the reaction was run at 25°C and pH 10 in an aqueous medium containing phenylacetamide and BPA in a molar ratio of 2:1, 8 U/mL enzyme and 0.1 M BPA, the maximum BPA conversion efficiency at 40 min only reached 36.1%, which, however, increased to 42.9% as the pH value and the molar ratio of phenylacetamide to BPA were elevated to 11 and 3:1, respectively. Under the relatively optimum reaction conditions, the maximum conversion efficiencies of BPA derivatives all reached about 50% in a relatively short reaction time (45-90 min). The enantiomeric excess value of product (eep) and enantiomeric excess value of substrate (ees) were all above 98% and 95%, respectively. These results suggest that the method established in this study is practical, effective, and environmentally benign and may be applied to industrial production of enantiomerically pure BPA and its derivatives.
- Li, Dengchao,Ji, Lilian,Wang, Xinfeng,Wei, Dongzhi
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p. 207 - 216
(2013/04/23)
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- Development of a commercial process for (S)-β-phenylalanine (1)
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The development of a commercial manufacturing route for (S)-β-phenylalanine 8, a key pharmaceutical building block, is described. The different approaches which were investigated, based on catalytic asymmetric hydrogenation of enamide intermediates and on biocatalysis using acylase and lipase hydrolyses, are compared. The lipase resolution route was chosen for scale-up, and the final two-step process, based on readily available raw materials, is shown to be robust at full manufacturing scale
- Grayson, J. Ian,Roos, Juergen,Osswald, Steffen
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p. 1201 - 1206
(2011/12/16)
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- Stereoselective chemoenzymatic preparation of β-amino esters: Molecular modelling considerations in lipase-mediated processes and application to the synthesis of (S)-dapoxetine
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A wide range of optically active 3-amino-3-arylpropanoic acid derivatives have been prepared by means of a stereoselective chemoenzymatic route. The key step is the kinetic resolution of the corresponding β-amino esters. Although the enzymatic acylations of the amino group with ethyl methoxyacetate showed synthetically useful enantioselectivities, the hydrolyses of the ester group catalyzed by lipase from Pseudomonas cepacia have been identified as the optimal processes concerning both activity and enantioselectivity. The enantiopreference of this lipase in these reactions has been explained, at the molecular level, by using a fragment-based approach in which the most favoured binding site for a phenyl ring and the most stable conformation of the 3-aminopropanoate core nicely match the (S)-configuration of the major products. The conversion and enantioselectivity values of the enzymatic reactions have been compared in order to understand the influence of the different substitution patterns present in the phenyl ring. This chemoenzymatic route has been successfully applied to the preparation of a valuable intermediate in the synthesis of (S)-dapoxetine, which has been chemically synthesised in excellent optical purity.
- Rodriguez-Mata, Maria,Garcia-Urdiales, Eduardo,Gotor-Fernandez, Vicente,Gotor, Vicente
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supporting information; experimental part
p. 395 - 406
(2010/06/15)
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- Efficient tandem biocatalytic process for the kinetic resolution of aromatic β-amino acids
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We describe a simple and efficient enzymatic tandem reaction for the preparation of enantiomerically pure β-phenylalanine and its analogues from the corresponding racemates. In this process, phenylalanine aminomutase (PAM) catalyzes the stereoselective isomerization of (R)-β-phenylalanines to (S)-a-phenylalanines, which are in situ transformed to cinnamic acids by phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL). Preparative scale conversions are done with a mutated PAM with enhanced catalytic activity.
- Wu, Bian,Szymanski, Wiktor,De Wildeman, Stefaan,Poelarends, Gerrit J.,Feringa, Ben L.,Janssen, Dick B.
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p. 1409 - 1412
(2010/08/19)
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- Biocatalytic approach to enatiomerically pure β-amino acids
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β-Aryl-β-amino acids were prepared in good chemical yield and high enantiomeric purity (> 95% ee) via penicillin acylase-catalyzed hydrolysis of the corresponding N-phenylacetyl derivatives. The (R)-enantiomers were the fast-reacting isomers in all cases studied. The biocatalytic procedure described employs a very simple set of reactions using inexpensive commercially available chemicals and enzyme, and could be easily scaled up.
- Soloshonok,Fokina,Rybakova,Shishkina,Galushko,Sorochinsky,Kukhar,Savchenko,Svedas
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p. 1601 - 1610
(2007/10/02)
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