19598-15-3Relevant articles and documents
A useful propionate cofactor enhancing activity for organic solvent-tolerant recombinant metal-free bromoperoxidase (perhydrolase) from Streptomyces aureofaciens
China, Hideyasu,Ogino, Hiroyasu
, p. 327 - 332 (2019/07/12)
The oxidative brominating activity of an organic solvent-tolerant recombinant metal-free bromoperoxidase BPO-A1 with C-terminal His-tag (rBPO-A1), from Streptomyces aureofaciens found to depend on various additives. These included carboxylic acids, used as cofactors and alcohols, used as water-miscible organic solvents. Enzyme activity was significantly enhanced by using propanoic acid (PA) as a cofactor, which had a high Log D at pH 5.0 and ethylene glycol with a low Log P. The positional specificity of oxidative hydroxybromination for olefins, using rBPO-A1 and PA in the presence of methanol, was higher compared to a non-enzymatic reaction using peracetic acid. The oxidative bromination step, occurring after enzymatic peroxidation step, is suggested to be pseudoenzymatic.
Mechanism of the enantioselective oxidation of racemic secondary alcohols catalyzed by chiral Mn(III)-salen complexes
Brown, M. Kevin,Blewett, Megan M.,Colombe, James R.,Corey
supporting information; experimental part, p. 11165 - 11170 (2010/10/03)
The experiments described here clarify the mechanism and origin of the enantioselectivity of the oxidation of racemic secondary alcohols catalyzed by chiral Mn(III)-salen complexes using HOBr, Br2/H2O/KOAc or PhI(OAc)2/H2O/KBr as a stoichiometric oxidant. Key points of the proposed pathway include (1) the formation of a Mn(V)-salen dibromide, (2) its subsequent reaction with the alcohol to give an alkoxy-Mn(V) species, and (3) carbonyl-forming elimination to produce the ketone via a highly organized transition state with intramolecular transfer of hydrogen from carbon to an oxygen of the salen ligand.