2078-14-0Relevant articles and documents
Trimethylsilyl Esters as Novel Dual-Purpose Protecting Reagents
Chen, Jyun-Siao,Huang, Po-Hsun,Hsieh, Ya-Chi,Liu, Jen-Wei,Hsu, Hsiao-Lin,Zhang, Kai-Min,Wu, Ren-Tsung,Chang, Ting-Shuo,Liu, Yu-Hao,Wu, Hsin-Ru,Luo, Shun-Yuan
supporting information, p. 754 - 762 (2021/12/02)
Trimethylsilyl esters, AcOTMS, BzOTMS, TCAOTMS, etc., are inexpensive and chemically stable reagents that pose a negligible environmental hazard. Such compounds prove to serve as efficient dualpurpose reagents to respectively achieve acylation and trimethylsilylation of alcohols under acidic or basic conditions. Herein, a detailed study on protection of various substrates and new methodological investigations is described.
Synthesis of trimethylsilyl carboxylates by HMDS under solvent-free conditions
Jereb, Marjan,Lakner, Janja
, p. 5713 - 5723 (2016/08/23)
A broad set of structurally different carboxylic acids were transformed into their trimethylsilyl esters with HMDS in a practically completely solvent-free process, while a catalytic amount of iodine was required in some cases. The process has several advantages over the known methods: untreated reactants, air atmosphere, mild and neutral conditions, no evolution of hydrogen halide, no need of an additional base, low amount of waste, completely without chromatography, low consumption of energy, and operational simplicity.
Investigation of the substrate range of CYP199A4: Modification of the partition between hydroxylation and desaturation activities by substrate and protein engineering
Bell, Stephen G.,Zhou, Ruimin,Yang, Wen,Tan, Adrian B. H.,Gentleman, Alexander S.,Wong, Luet-Lok,Zhou, Weihong
, p. 16677 - 16688 (2013/03/28)
The cytochrome P450 enzyme CYP199A4, from Rhodopseudomonas palustris HaA2, can efficiently demethylate 4-methoxybenzoic acid. It is also capable of oxidising a range of other related substrates. By investigating substrates with different substituents and ring systems we have been able to show that the carboxylate group and the nature of the ring system and the substituent are all important for optimal substrate binding and activity. The structures of the veratric acid, 2-naphthoic acid and indole-6-carboxylic acid substrate-bound CYP199A4 complexes reveal the substrate binding modes and the side-chain conformational changes of the active site residues to accommodate these larger substrates. They also provide a rationale for the selectivity of product oxidation. The oxidation of alkyl substituted benzoic acids by CYP199A4 is more complex, with desaturation reactions competing with hydroxylation activity. The structure of 4-ethylbenzoic acid-bound CYP199A4 revealed that the substrate is held in a similar position to 4-methoxybenzoic acid, and that the C β C-H bonds of the ethyl group are closer to the heme iron than those of the Cα (3.5 vs. 4.8 A?). This observation, when coupled to the relative energies of the reaction intermediates, indicates that the positioning of the alkyl group relative to the heme iron may be critical in determining the amount of desaturation that is observed. By mutating a single residue in the active site of CYP199A4 (Phe185) we were able to convert the enzyme into a 4-ethylbenzoic acid desaturase. Engineering a P450 desaturase: The substrate range of CYP199A4 from Rhodopseudomonas palustris was investigated. The partition between the hydroxylation and desaturation activities of 4-ethylbenzoic acid was studied by changing the substrate and by mutation. The activity of CYP199A4 with 4-ethylbenzoic acid was changed to a desaturase by a single mutation at F185. Copyright
