6628-00-8Relevant articles and documents
Integrated Electro-Biocatalysis for Amine Alkylation with Alcohols
Pe?afiel, Itziar,Dryfe, Robert A. W.,Turner, Nicholas J.,Greaney, Michael F.
, p. 864 - 867 (2021/01/21)
The integration of electro and bio-catalysis offers new ways of making molecules under very mild, environmentally benign conditions. We show that TEMPO mediated electro-catalytic oxidation of alcohols can be adapted to work in aqueous buffers, with minimal organic co-solvent, enabling integration with biocatalytic reductive amination using the AdRedAm enzyme. The combined process offers a new approach to amine alkylation with native alcohols, a key bond formation in the chemical economy that is currently achieved via precious metal-catalyzed hydrogen-borrowing technologies. The electrobio transformation is effective for primary and secondary alcohols undergoing coupling with allyl, propargyl, benzyl, and cyclopropyl amines, and has been adapted for use with solid-supported AdRedAm for ease of operation.
A Mechanism for Reductive Amination Catalyzed by Fungal Reductive Aminases
Sharma, Mahima,Mangas-Sanchez, Juan,France, Scott P.,Aleku, Godwin A.,Montgomery, Sarah L.,Ramsden, Jeremy I.,Turner, Nicholas J.,Grogan, Gideon
, p. 11534 - 11541 (2018/11/23)
Reductive aminases (RedAms) catalyze the asymmetric reductive amination of ketones with primary amines to give secondary amine products. RedAms have great potential for the synthesis of bioactive chiral amines; however, insights into their mechanism are currently limited. Comparative studies on reductive amination of cyclohexanone with allylamine in the presence of RedAms, imine reductases (IREDs), or NaBH3CN support the distinctive activity of RedAms in catalyzing both imine formation and reduction in the reaction. Structures of AtRedAm from Aspergillus terreus, in complex with NADPH and ketone and amine substrates, along with kinetic analysis of active-site mutants, reveal modes of substrate binding, the basis for the specificity of RedAms for reduction of imines over ketones, and the importance of domain flexibility in bringing the reactive participants together for the reaction. This information is used to propose a mechanism for their action and also to expand the substrate specificity of RedAms using protein engineering.
A biocatalytic cascade for the amination of unfunctionalised cycloalkanes
Tavanti, Michele,Mangas-Sanchez, Juan,Montgomery, Sarah L.,Thompson, Matthew P.,Turner, Nicholas J.
supporting information, p. 9790 - 9793 (2017/12/08)
Here we describe a one-pot, three-enzyme, cascade involving a cytochrome P450 monooxygenase, an alcohol dehydrogenase and a reductive aminase for the synthesis of secondary amines from cycloalkanes. Amine product concentrations of up to 19.6 mM were achieved. The preparative scale amination of cyclohexane was also demonstrated with a space-time yield of 2 g L-1 d-1.
