1572-95-8Relevant articles and documents
Discovery and Redesign of a Family VIII Carboxylesterase with High (S)-Selectivity toward Chiral sec-Alcohols
Park, Areum,Park, Seongsoon
, p. 2397 - 2402 (2022/02/17)
Highly enantioselective lipase has been widely utilized in the preparation of versatile enantiopure chiral sec-alcohols through kinetic or dynamic kinetic resolution. Lipase is intrinsically (R)-selective, and it is difficult to obtain (S)-selective lipase. Recent crystal structures of a family VIII carboxylesterase have revealed that the spatial array of its catalytic triad is the mirror image of that of lipase but with a catalytic triad that is distinct from lipase. We, therefore, hypothesized that the family VIII carboxylesterase may exhibit (S)-enantioselectivity toward sec-alcohols similar to (S)-selective serine protease, whose catalytic triad is also spatially arrayed as its mirror image. In this study, a homologous enzyme (carboxylesterase from Proteobacteria bacterium SG_bin9, PBE) of a known family VIII carboxylesterase (pdb code: 4IVK) was prepared, which showed not only moderate (S)-selectivity toward sec-alcohols such as 3-butyn-2-ol and 1-phenylethyl alcohol but also (R)-selectivity toward particular sec-alcohols among the substrates explored. Furthermore, the (S)-selectivity of PBE has been significantly improved by rational redesign based on molecular modeling. Molecular modeling identified a binding pocket composed of Ser381, Ala383, and Arg408 for the methyl substituent of (R)-1-phenylethyl acetate and suggested that larger residues may increase the enantioselectivity by interfering with the binding of the slow-reacting enantiomer. As predicted, substituting Ser381with larger residues (Phe, Tyr, and Trp) significantly improved the (S)-selectivity of PBE toward all sec-alcohols explored, even the substrates toward which the wild-type PBE exhibits (R)-selectivity. For instance, the enantioselectivity toward 3-butyn-2-ol and 1-phenylethyl alcohol was improved from E = 5.5 and 36.1 to E = 2001 and 882, respectively, by single mutagenesis (S381F).
Method for synthesizing chiral secondary alcohol compound
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Paragraph 0038-0041; 0156-0159, (2021/05/29)
The invention discloses a method for synthesizing a chiral secondary alcohol compound. The method comprises the following step of: reacting a ketone compound in an aprotic organic solvent at room temperature and inert gas atmosphere under the action of a chiral cobalt catalyst and an activating agent by taking a combination of bis(pinacolato)diboron and alcohol or water as a reducing agent to obtain the chiral secondary alcohol compound. According to the method disclosed by the invention, a combination of pinacol diborate and alcohol or water which are cheap, stable and easy to obtain is taken as a reducing agent, and a ketone compound is efficiently reduced to synthesize a corresponding chiral secondary alcohol compound in an aprotic organic solvent under the action of a chiral cobalt catalyst; in a chiral cobalt catalyst adopted by the method, when a chiral ligand is PAOR, an activating agent is NaBHEt3 or NaOtBu and an adopted raw material is aromatic ketone, the yield is 80% or above, and the optical purity is 90% or above; and when the adopted raw material is alkane ketone, the yield can reach 70% or above, and the optical purity can reach 80% or above.
Enantiomerically Enriched α-Borylzinc Reagents by Nickel-Catalyzed Carbozincation of Vinylboronic Esters
Chen, Jingjia,Hu, Weipeng,Jin, Jing,Lovinger, Gabriel J.,Morken, James P.,Zhang, Chenlong
supporting information, p. 14189 - 14195 (2021/09/11)
In this paper is described a synthesis of enantiomerically enriched, configurationally stable organozinc reagents by catalytic enantioselective carbozincation of a vinylboronic ester. This process furnishes enantiomerically enriched α-borylzinc intermediates that are shown to undergo stereospecific reactions, producing enantioenriched secondary boronic ester products. The properties of the intermediate α-borylzinc reagent are probed and the synthetic utility of the products is demonstrated by application to the synthesis of (-)-aphanorphine and (-)-enterolactone.
