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Nitrile biotransformations for the synthesis of highly enantioenriched β-hydroxy and β-amino acid and amide derivatives: A general and simple but powerful and efficient benzyl protection strategy to increase enantioselectivity of the amidase
Ma, Da-You,Wang, De-Xian,Pan, Jie,Huang, Zhi-Tang,Wang, Mei-Xiang
, p. 4087 - 4091 (2008/09/20)
(Chemical Equation Presented) Biotransformations of a number of racemic β-hydroxy and β-amino nitrile derivatives were studied using Rhodococcus erythropolis AJ270, the nitrile hydratase and amidase-containing microbial whole cell catalyst, under very mild conditions. The overall enantioselectivity of nitrile biotransformations was governed predominantly by the amidase whose enantioselectivity was switched on remarkably by an O- and a N-benzyl protection group of the substrates. While biotransformations of β-hydroxy and β-amino alkanenitriles gave low yields of amide and acid products of very low enantiomeric purity, introduction of a simple benzyl protection group on the β-hydroxy and β-amino of nitrile substrates led to the formation of highly enantioenriched β-benzyloxy and β-benzylamino amides and acids in almost quantitative yield. The easy protection and deprotection operations, high chemical yield, and excellent enantioselectivity render the nitrile biotransformation a useful protocol in the synthesis of enantiopure β-hydroxy and β-amino acids.
