5953-49-1Relevant articles and documents
Highly Focused Library-Based Engineering of Candida antarctica Lipase B with (S)-Selectivity Towards sec-Alcohols
Cen, Yixin,Li, Danyang,Xu, Jian,Wu, Qiongsi,Wu, Qi,Lin, Xianfu
supporting information, p. 126 - 134 (2018/12/05)
Candida antarctica lipase B (CALB) is one of the most extensively used biocatalysts in both academia and industry and exhibits remarkable (R)-enantioselectivity for various chiral sec-alcohols. Considering the significance of tailor-made stereoselectivity in organic synthesis, a discovery of enantiocomplementary lipase mutants with high (R)- and (S)-selectivity is valuable and highly desired. Herein, we report a highly efficient directed evolution strategy, using only 4 representative amino acids, namely, alanine (A), leucine (L), lysine (K), tryptophan (W) at each mutated site to create an extremely small library of CALB variants requiring notably less screening. The obtained best mutant with three mutations W104V/A281L/A282K displayed highly reversed (S)-selectivity towards a series of sec-alcohol with E values up to 115 (conv. 50%, ee 94%). Compared with the previously reported (S)-selective CALB variant, W104A, a single mutation provided less selectivity, while the synergistic effects of three mutations in the best variant endow better (S)-selectivity and a broader substrate scope than the W104A variant. Structural analysis and molecular dynamics simulation unveiled the source of reversed enantioselectivity. (Figure presented.).
Polystyrene-supported GaCl3: A new, highly efficient and recyclable heterogeneous Lewis acid catalyst for acetylation and benzoylation of alcohols and phenols
Rahmatpour, Ali
, p. 1048 - 1054 (2013/02/22)
A new, simple and highly chemoselective method for both acetylation and benzoylation of alcohols and phenols with acetic anhydride in the presence of polystyrene-supported gallium trichloride (PS/GaCl3) as a highly active and reusable heterogeneous Lewis acid catalyst is presented. In this catalytic system, primary, secondary and tertiary alcohols as well as phenols were converted to the corresponding acetates and benzoates with high yields. The heterogenized catalyst is of high reusability and stability in the acetylation reactions and was recovered several times with negligible loss in its activity or a negligible catalyst leaching, and also there is no need for regeneration. Remarkably, a selective mono-acetylation of symmetrical diols can be achieved chemoselectively by employing the same catalyst.
Novel sol-gel lipases by designed bioimprinting for continuous-flow kinetic resolutions
Hellner, Gabriella,Boros, Zoltan,Tomin, Anna,Poppe, Laszlo
supporting information; experimental part, p. 2481 - 2491 (2011/11/06)
The bioimprinting effect in sol-gel immobilization of lipases was studied to develop efficient novel immobilized biocatalysts with significantly improved properties for biotransformations in continuous-flow systems. The bioimprinting candidates were selected systematically among the substrate mimics already found in the active site of experimental lipase structures. Four lipases (Lipase AK, Lipase PS, CaLB and CrL) were immobilized by a sol-gel process with nine bioimprinting candidates using various combinations of tetraethoxysilane (TEOS), phenyltriethoxysilane (PhTEOS), octyltriethoxysilane (OcTEOS) and dimethyldiethylsilane (DMDEOS) as silica precursors. The biocatalytic properties of the immobilized lipases were characterized by enantiomer selective acylation of various racemic secondary alcohols in two different multisubstrate systems (mixture A: a series of alkan-2-ols rac-1a-e and mixture B: heptan-2-ol rac-1f and 1-phenylethanol rac-1g). Except with Lipase AK, the most significant activity enhancement was found with the imprinting molecules already found as substrate mimics in X-ray structures of various lipases. The synthetic usefulness of the best biocatalysts was demonstrated by the kinetic resolution of racemic 1-(thiophen-2-yl)ethanol (rac-1h) in batch and continuous-flow systems. Copyright
