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Green synthesis method of polyaryl substituted methanol
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Paragraph 0127-0131; 0162-0166, (2021/04/17)
The invention relates to a green synthesis method of polyaryl substituted methanol, in particular to a method for efficiently synthesizing polyaryl substituted methanol in a polar aprotic solvent under the condition of an oxidizing agent by taking polyaryl substituted methane as a raw material and alkali as an additive. The method provided by the invention is green and environment-friendly, avoids using expensive metal catalysts, and has the advantages of low cost, few reaction steps, short time, high yield and the like.
Transition-Metal Free Chemoselective Hydroxylation and Hydroxylation-Deuteration of Heterobenzylic Methylenes
Fu, Yiwei,Li, Hao,Liu, Yonghai,Mang, Zhiguo,Shi, Lei,Sun, Chengyu,Yu, Yang
supporting information, p. 8127 - 8131 (2020/11/03)
We developed an approach for direct selective hydroxylation of heterobenzylic methylenes to secondary alcohols avoiding overoxidation to ketones by using a KOBu-t/DMSO/air system. Most reactions could reach completion in several minutes to give hydroxylated products in 41-76% yields. Using DMSO-d6, this protocol resulted in difunctionalization of heterobenzylic methylenes to afford α-deuterated secondary alcohols (>93% incorporation). By employing this method, active pharmaceutical ingredients carbinoxamine and doxylamine were synthesized in two steps in moderate yields.
Conformational Dynamics-Guided Loop Engineering of an Alcohol Dehydrogenase: Capture, Turnover and Enantioselective Transformation of Difficult-to-Reduce Ketones
Liu, Beibei,Qu, Ge,Li, Jun-Kuan,Fan, Wenchao,Ma, Jun-An,Xu, Yan,Nie, Yao,Sun, Zhoutong
supporting information, p. 3182 - 3190 (2019/05/15)
Directed evolution of enzymes for the asymmetric reduction of prochiral ketones to produce enantio-pure secondary alcohols is particularly attractive in organic synthesis. Loops located at the active pocket of enzymes often participate in conformational changes required to fine-tune residues for substrate binding and catalysis. It is therefore of great interest to control the substrate specificity and stereochemistry of enzymatic reactions by manipulating the conformational dynamics. Herein, a secondary alcohol dehydrogenase was chosen to enantioselectively catalyze the transformation of difficult-to-reduce bulky ketones, which are not accepted by the wildtype enzyme. Guided by previous work and particularly by structural analysis and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, two key residues alanine 85 (A85) and isoleucine 86 (I86) situated at the binding pocket were thought to increase the fluctuation of a loop region, thereby yielding a larger volume of the binding pocket to accommodate bulky substrates. Subsequently, site-directed saturation mutagenesis was performed at the two sites. The best mutant, where residue alanine 85 was mutated to glycine and isoleucine 86 to leucine (A85G/I86L), can efficiently reduce bulky ketones to the corresponding pharmaceutically interesting alcohols with high enantioselectivities (～99% ee). Taken together, this study demonstrates that introducing appropriate mutations at key residues can induce a higher flexibility of the active site loop, resulting in the improvement of substrate specificity and enantioselectivity. (Figure presented.).
