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CYP505E3: A Novel Self-Sufficient ω-7 In-Chain Hydroxylase
Maseme, Mpeyake Jacob,Opperman, Diederik Johannes,Pennec, Alizé,Smit, Martha Sophia,van Marwijk, Jacqueline
supporting information, p. 10359 - 10362 (2020/04/23)
The self-sufficient cytochrome P450 monooxygenase CYP505E3 from Aspergillus terreus catalyzes the regioselective in-chain hydroxylation of alkanes, fatty alcohols, and fatty acids at the ω-7 position. It is the first reported P450 to give regioselective in-chain ω-7 hydroxylation of C10–C16 n-alkanes, thereby enabling the one step biocatalytic synthesis of rare alcohols such as 5-dodecanol and 7-tetradecanol. It shows more than 70 percent regioselectivity for the eighth carbon from one methyl terminus, and displays remarkably high activity towards decane (TTN≈8000) and dodecane (TTN≈2000). CYP505E3 can be used to synthesize the high-value flavour compound δ-dodecalactone via two routes: 1) conversion of dodecanoic acid into 5-hydroxydodecanoic acid (24 percent regioselectivity), which at low pH lactonises to δ-dodecalactone, and 2) conversion of 1-dodecanol into 1,5-dodecanediol (55 percent regioselectivity), which can be converted into δ-dodecalactone by horse liver alcohol dehydrogenase.
Ketyl-type radicals from cyclic and acyclic esters are stabilized by SmI2(H2O)n: the role of SmI2(H 2O)n in post-electron transfer steps
Szostak, Michal,Spain, Malcolm,Procter, David J.
supporting information, p. 8459 - 8466 (2014/06/24)
Mechanistic details pertaining to the SmI2-H2O- mediated reduction and reductive coupling of 6-membered lactones, the first class of simple unactivated carboxylic acid derivatives that had long been thought to lie outside the reducing range of SmI2, have been elucidated. Our results provide new experimental evidence that water enables the productive electron transfer from Sm(II) by stabilization of the radical anion intermediate rather than by solely promoting the first electron transfer as originally proposed. Notably, these studies suggest that all reactions involving the generation of ketyl-type radicals with SmI2 occur under a unified mechanism based on the thermodynamic control of the second electron transfer step, thus providing a blueprint for the development of a broad range of novel chemoselective transformations via open-shell electron pathways.
Hydroboration. 67. Cyclic Hydroboration of Acyclic α,ω-Dienes with 9-Borabicyclononane/Borane-Dimethyl Sulfide
Brown, Herbert C.,Pai, Ganesh G.,Naik, Ramachandra G.
, p. 1072 - 1078 (2007/10/02)
Hydroboration of acyclic α,ω-dienes, 1,3-butadiene, 1,4-pentadiene, 1,5-hexadiene, 1,7-octadiene, 1,8-nonadiene, 1,9-decadiene, 1,11-dodecadiene, and 1,13-tetradecadiene, with 2 molar equiv of 9-borabicyclononane (9-BBN), followed by redistribution of the resulting dumbbell-shaped trialkylboranes with 1 molar equiv of borane-methyl Sulfide complex (BMS), has been investigated.With 1,3-butadiene, the initial redistribution product, the five-membered boracyclane, borolane, underwent a rapid ring-opening reaction to give the known 1,6-diboracyclodecane. 1,4-Pentadiene and 1,5-hexadiene afforded the corresponding boracyclanes, borinane and borepane, in quantitative yields.With all other dienes, the initial redistribution products were polymeric.They were converted to the methyl esters by treatment with methanol, and these products were depolymerized into cyclic derivatives in 88-98percent yield by vacuum distillation at 175-200 deg C.In every case the cyclization was accompanied by varying amounts of isomerization so that the major products were both the parent B-methoxyboracyclane and the corresponding B-methoxy-2-n-alkylborinane.Thus, 1,6-heptadiene afforded B-methoxyborocane and B-methoxy-2-ethylborinane in 3:1 ratio and a total yield of 95percent.With 1,7-octadiene, 1,8-nonadiene, 1,9-decadiene and 1,11-dodecadiene, the isomerized product constituted the major constituent of the distillate. 1,13-Tetradecadiene afforded the parent boracyclane and the isomer in a 47:53 ratio and a combined yield of 82percent.The B-methoxyboracyclanes were converted to the corresponding cyclic ketones by the DCME reaction in 55-65percent yield.
