- Enzyme-Catalysed Synthesis of Cyclohex-2-en-1-one cis-Diols from Substituted Phenols, Anilines and Derived 4-Hydroxycyclohex-2-en-1-ones
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Toluene dioxygenase-catalysed cis-dihydroxylations of substituted aniline and phenol substrates, with a Pseudomonas putida UV4 mutant strain and an Escherichia coli pCL-4t recombinant strain, yielded identical arene cis-dihydrodiols, which were isolated as the preferred cyclohex-2-en-1-one cis-diol tautomers. These cis-diol metabolites were predicted by preliminary molecular docking studies, of anilines and phenols, at the active site of toluene dioxygenase. Further biotransformations of cyclohex-2-en-1-one cis-diol and hydroquinone metabolites, using Pseudomonas putida UV4 whole cells, were found to yield 4-hydroxycyclohex-2-en-1-ones as a new type of phenol bioproduct. Multistep pathways, involving ene reductase- and carbonyl reductase-catalysed reactions, were proposed to account for the production of 4-hydroxycyclohex-2-en-1-one metabolites. Evidence for the phenol hydrate tautomers of 4-hydroxycyclohex-2-en-1-one metabolites was shown by formation of the corresponding trimethylsilyl ether derivatives. (Figure presented.).
- Boyd, Derek R.,Sharma, Narain D.,McIntyre, Peter B. A.,Stevenson, Paul J.,McRoberts, W. Colin,Gohil, Amit,Hoering, Patrick,Allen, Christopher C. R.
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p. 4002 - 4014
(2017/11/22)
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- Toluene dioxygenase-catalyzed synthesis and reactions of cis -diol metabolites derived from 2- and 3-methoxyphenols
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Using toluene dioxygenase as biocatalyst, enantiopure cis-dihydrodiol and cis-tetrahydrodiol metabolites, isolated as their ketone tautomers, were obtained from meta and ortho methoxyphenols. Although these isomeric phenol substrates are structurally similar, the major bioproducts from each of these biotransformations were found at different oxidation levels. The relatively stable cyclohexenone cis-diol metabolite from meta methoxyphenol was isolated, while the corresponding metabolite from ortho methoxyphenol was rapidly bioreduced to a cyclohexanone cis-diol. The chemistry of the 3-methoxycyclohexenone cis-diol product was investigated and elimination, aromatization, hydrogenation, regioselective O-exchange, Stork-Danheiser transposition and O-methylation reactions were observed. An offshoot of this technology provided a two-step chemoenzymatic synthesis, from meta methoxyphenol, of a recently reported chiral fungal metabolite; this synthesis also established the previously unassigned absolute configuration.
- Boyd, Derek R.,Sharma, Narain D.,Malone, John F.,McIntyre, Peter B. A.,McRoberts, Colin,Floyd, Stewart,Allen, Christopher C. R.,Gohil, Amit,Coles, Simon J.,Horton, Peter N.,Stevenson, Paul J.
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p. 3429 - 3439
(2015/04/14)
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- Structure, stereochemistry and synthesis of enantiopure cyclohexenone cis-diol bacterial metabolites derived from phenols
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Biotransformation of 3-substituted and 2,5-disubstituted phenols, using whole cells of P. putida UV4, yielded cyclohexenone cis-diols as single enantiomers; their structures and absolute configurations have been determined by NMR and ECD spectroscopy, X-ray crystallography, and stereochemical correlation involving a four step chemoenzymatic synthesis from the corresponding cis-dihydrodiol metabolites. An active site model has been proposed, to account for the formation of enantiopure cyclohexenone cis-diols with opposite absolute configurations.
- Boyd, Derek R.,Sharma, Narain D.,Malone, John F.,McIntyre, Peter B. A.,Stevenson, Paul J.,Allen, Christopher C. R.,Kwit, Marcin,Gawronski, Jacek
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p. 6217 - 6229
(2012/09/05)
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