24323-23-7Relevant articles and documents
2-Methylalkanoic acids resolved by esterification catalysed by lipase from Candida rugosa: Alcohol chain length and enantioselectivity
Berglund,Holmquist,Hedenstrom,Hult,Hogberg
, p. 1869 - 1878 (1993)
Enantiomerically pure (R)-2-methyldecanoic acid and (S)-2-methyl-1-decanol were prepared in a multi gram scale by esterification reactions catalysed by lipase from Candida rugosa. The enantiomeric ratios (E-values) were determined as a function of the chain length of the alcohol used as the complementary substrate in cyclohexane. In the resolution of 2-methyldecanoic acid the highest value (E = 37 ± 5) was obtained, when either 2-hexanol, 1-heptanol or 1-octanol were used. In contrast, when resolving 2-methyloctanoic acid, the E-values increased continually with increasing chain length of the alcohol used. 1-Hexadecanol gave the highest value: E > 100. The E-values were determined from the enantiomeric excess (ee) of the product at a conversion below 0.4. After two consecutive esterification reactions enantiomerically pure (R)-2-methyldecanoic acid, >99.8% ee, and after subsequent reduction of the ester produced, (S)-2-methyl-1-decanol, 96.7% ee, were obtained.
Synthesis of Carboxylic Acids by Palladium-Catalyzed Hydroxycarbonylation
Sang, Rui,Kucmierczyk, Peter,Dühren, Ricarda,Razzaq, Rauf,Dong, Kaiwu,Liu, Jie,Franke, Robert,Jackstell, Ralf,Beller, Matthias
supporting information, p. 14365 - 14373 (2019/09/06)
The synthesis of carboxylic acids is of fundamental importance in the chemical industry and the corresponding products find numerous applications for polymers, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and other manufactured chemicals. Although hydroxycarbonylations of olefins have been known for more than 60 years, currently known catalyst systems for this transformation do not fulfill industrial requirements, for example, stability. Presented herein for the first time is an aqueous-phase protocol that allows conversion of various olefins, including sterically hindered and demanding tetra-, tri-, and 1,1-disubstituted systems, as well as terminal alkenes, into the corresponding carboxylic acids in excellent yields. The outstanding stability of the catalyst system (26 recycling runs in 32 days without measurable loss of activity), is showcased in the preparation of an industrially relevant fatty acid. Key-to-success is the use of a built-in-base ligand under acidic aqueous conditions. This catalytic system is expected to provide a basis for new cost-competitive processes for the industrial production of carboxylic acids.
Laboratory evolution of enantiocomplementary Candida antarctica lipase B mutants with broad substrate scope
Wu, Qi,Soni, Pankaj,Reetz, Manfred T.
supporting information, p. 1872 - 1881 (2013/08/24)
Candida antarctica lipase B (CALB) is a robust and easily expressed enzyme used widely in academic and industrial laboratories with many different kinds of applications. In fine chemicals production, examples include acylating kinetic resolution of racemic secondary alcohols and amines as well as desymmetrization of prochiral diols (or the reverse hydrolytic reactions). However, in the case of hydrolytic kinetic resolution of esters or esterifying kinetic resolution of acids in which chirality resides in the carboxylic acid part of the substrate, rate and stereoselectivity are generally poor. In the present study, directed evolution based on iterative saturation mutagenesis was applied to solve the latter problem. Mutants with highly improved activity and enantioselectivity relative to wild-type CALB were evolved for the hydrolytic kinetic resolution of p-nitrophenyl 2-phenylpropanoate, with the selectivity factor increasing from E = 1.2 (S) to E = 72 (S) or reverting to E = 42 (R) on an optional basis. Surprisingly, point mutations both in the acyl and alcohol pockets of CALB proved to be necessary. Some of the evolved CALB mutants are also efficient biocatalysts in the kinetic resolution of other chiral esters without performing new mutagenesis experiments. Another noteworthy result concerns the finding that enantiocomplementary CALB mutants for α-substituted carboxylic acid esters also show stereocomplementarity in the hydrolytic kinetic resolution of esters derived from chiral secondary alcohols. Insight into the source of stereoselectivity was gained by molecular dynamics simulations and docking experiments.
