36567-72-3Relevant articles and documents
Sterically congested chiral N-acetyl 2-oxazolidinone as acetyl enolate equivalents in stereoselective aldol reactions
Otsuka,Ishizuka,Kimura,Kunieda
, p. 748 - 750 (1994)
Sterically constrained and highly congested N-acetyl-DMAOx (1a) serves well as a useful chiral acetyl enolate equivalent which permits a diastereoselective and direct approach to 'acetate' aldols (2) including statine derivative.
Substrate evaluation of rhodococcus erythropolis SET1, a nitrile hydrolysing bacterium, demonstrating dual activity strongly dependent on nitrile sub-structure
Coady, Tracey M.,Coffey, Lee V.,O'Reilly, Catherine,Lennon, Claire M.
supporting information, p. 1108 - 1116 (2015/02/19)
Assessment of Rhodococcus erythropolis SET1, a novel nitrile hydrolysing bacterial isolate, has been undertaken with 34 nitriles, 33 chiral and 1 prochiral. These substrates consist primarily of β-hydroxy nitriles with varying alkyl and aryl groups at the β position and containing in several compounds different substituents α to the nitrile. In the case of β-hydroxy nitriles without substitution at the α position, acids were the major products obtained, along with recovered nitrile after biotransformation, as a result of suspected nitrilase activity of the isolate. Unexpectedly, amides were found to be the major hydrolysis product when the β-hydroxy nitriles possessed a vinyl group at this position. To probe this behaviour further, additional related substrates were evaluated containing electron-withdrawing groups at the α position, and amide was also observed upon biotransformation in the presence of SET1. Therefore this novel isolate has also demonstrated NHase activity with nitriles that appears to be substrate-dependent.
Biotransformation of aromatic ketones and ketoesters with the non-conventional yeast Pichia glucozyma
Contente, Martina Letizia,Molinari, Francesco,Zambelli, Paolo,De Vitis, Valerio,Gandolfi, Raffaella,Pinto, Andrea,Romano, Diego
supporting information, p. 7051 - 7053 (2015/02/02)
The non-conventional yeast Pichia glucozyma CBS 5766 has been used for the biotransformation of different aromatic ketones and ketoesters. The growth and biotransformation conditions were optimised for the reduction of acetophenone and under optimised conditions, propiophenone, butyrophenone and valerophenone were reduced to the corresponding (S)-alcohols with high yields and enantioselectivity. Ketoreductase(s) of Pichia glucozyma showed high catalytic activities also towards aromatic β- and γ-ketoesters, being often competitive with esterase(s). These concurrent activities allowed for the preparation of hydroxyesters, hydroxyacids and lactones often in a very selective manner.
