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From Glucose to Polymers: A Continuous Chemoenzymatic Process
Banahene, Nicholas,Bettinger, Reuben,Du, Wenjun,Esser-Kahn, Aaron P.,Liang, Zhijie,Maiti, Sampa,Manna, Saikat,Pham, Lucynda,Wang, Jun,Xu, Yi,Zientko, John
, p. 18943 - 18947 (2020)
Efforts to synthesize degradable polymers from renewable resources are deterred by technical and economic challenges; especially, the conversion of natural building blocks into polymerizable monomers is inefficient, requiring multistep synthesis and chromatographic purification. Herein we report a chemoenzymatic process to address these challenges. An enzymatic reaction system was designed that allows for regioselective functional group transformation, efficiently converting glucose into a polymerizable monomer in quantitative yield, thus removing the need for chromatographic purification. With this key success, we further designed a continuous, three-step process, which enabled the synthesis of a sugar polymer, sugar poly(orthoester), directly from glucose in high yield (73 % from glucose). This work may provide a proof-of-concept in developing technically and economically viable approaches to address the many issues associated with current petroleum-based polymers.
Mitigation of Hydrophobicity-Induced Immunotoxicity by Sugar Poly(orthoesters)
Maiti, Sampa,Manna, Saikat,Shen, Jingjing,Esser-Kahn, Aaron P.,Du, Wenjun
supporting information, p. 4510 - 4514 (2019/03/26)
Polymeric nanoparticles (NPs) derived from self-assemblies of amphiphilic polymers have demonstrated great potential in clinical applications. However, there are challenges ahead. Notably, immunotoxicity remains a major roadblock that deters the NPs from
Rapid preparation of variously protected glycals using titanium(III)
Spencer, Roxanne P.,Cavallaro, Cullen L.,Schwartz, Jeffrey
, p. 3987 - 3995 (2007/10/03)
Glycosyl chlorides and bromides can be rapidly converted to glycals in high yield by reaction with (Cp2Ti[III]Cl)2. This reagent tolerates a wide range of common carbohydrate protecting groups, including silyl ethers, acetals, and esters; the methodology provides a general route for the preparation of glycals substituted with both acid- and base-labile functionality. A reaction mechanism is proposed that is based on heteroatom abstraction to give an intermediate glycosyl radical. This radical reacts with a second equivalent of Ti(III) to yield a glycosyltitanium(IV) species. β-Heteroatom elimination from the glycosyltitanium(IV) complex gives the glycal.