145166-06-9Relevant articles and documents
Exploiting Chromophore-Protein Interactions through Linker Engineering to Tune Photoinduced Dynamics in a Biomimetic Light-Harvesting Platform
Delor, Milan,Dai, Jing,Roberts, Trevor D.,Rogers, Julia R.,Hamed, Samia M.,Neaton, Jeffrey B.,Geissler, Phillip L.,Francis, Matthew B.,Ginsberg, Naomi S.
supporting information, p. 6278 - 6287 (2018/06/01)
Creating artificial systems that mimic and surpass those found in nature is one of the great challenges of modern science. In the context of photosynthetic light harvesting, the difficulty lies in attaining utmost control over the energetics, positions and relative orientations of chromophores in densely packed arrays to transfer electronic excitation energy to desired locations with high efficiency. Toward achieving this goal, we use a highly versatile biomimetic protein scaffold from the tobacco mosaic virus coat protein on which chromophores can be attached at precise locations via linkers of differing lengths and rigidities. We show that minor linker modifications, including switching chiral configurations and alkyl chain shortening, lead to significant lengthening of the ultrafast excited state dynamics of the system as the linkers are shortened and rigidified. Molecular dynamics simulations provide molecular-level detail over how the chromophore attachment orientations, positions, and distances from the protein surface lead to the observed trends in system dynamics. In particular, we find that short and rigid linkers are able to sandwich water molecules between chromophore and protein, leading to chromophore-water-protein supracomplexes with intricately coupled dynamics that are highly dependent on their local protein environment. In addition, cyclohexyl-based linkers are identified as ideal candidates to retain rotational correlations over several nanoseconds and thus lock relative chromophore orientations throughout the lifetime of an exciton. Combining linker engineering with judicious placement of chromophores on the hydrated protein scaffold to exploit different chromophore-bath couplings provides a clear and effective path to producing highly controllable artificial light-harvesting systems that can increasingly mimic their natural counterparts, thus aiding to elucidate natural photosynthetic mechanisms.
Hybrid Organo- and Biocatalytic Process for the Asymmetric Transformation of Alcohols into Amines in Aqueous Medium
Liardo, Elisa,Ríos-Lombardía, Nicolás,Morís, Francisco,Rebolledo, Francisca,González-Sabín, Javier
, p. 4768 - 4774 (2017/07/24)
A hybrid organo- and biocatalytic system for the asymmetric conversion of racemic alcohols into amines was developed. Combining an organocatalyst, AZADO, an oxidant, NaOCl, and an enzyme, ω-transaminase, we implemented a one-pot oxidation-transamination sequential process in aqueous medium. The method showed broad substrate scope and was successfully applied to conventional secondary alcohols and sterically hindered β-substituted cycloalkanols, where a highly stereoselective dynamic asymmetric bioamination enabled us to set up both contiguous stereocenters with very high enantio- and diastereomeric ratio (>90% yield, >99% ee, and up to 49:1 dr).
Chemoenzymatic preparation of optically active trans- and cis-cyclohex-4-ene-1,2-diamine and trans-6-aminocyclohex-3-enol derivatives
Quijada, F. Javier,Rebolledo, Francisca,Gotor, Vicente
, p. 7670 - 7674 (2012/09/21)
Lipase from Burkholderia cepacia (PSL-C) effectively catalyzed the kinetic resolution of both racemic trans-N,N-diallylcyclohex-4-ene-1,2-diamine (±)-6 and its precursor trans-6-(diallylamino)cyclohex-3-enol (±)-5. The resulting optically active vicinal diamine and β-amino alcohol were converted into a precursor of oseltamivir and a cis-cyclohex-4-ene-1,2-diamine derivative, respectively.
