- Novel heterogeneous ruthenium racemization catalyst for dynamic kinetic resolution of chiral aliphatic amines
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Only few dynamic kinetic resolution (DKR) systems are known for chiral aliphatic amines due to the difficult racemization of these amines. In this work, each aspect of the DKR of aliphatic amines is investigated. Various ruthenium catalysts were evaluated to increase their applicability in racemization as an alternative to established heterogeneous palladium catalysts. A heterogeneous Ru(iii) on zeolite catalyst showed good activity for racemization in aprotic polar media. Next, kinetic resolution was evaluated; excellent yields (50%) and selectivities (>99%) were obtained in apolar solvents when employing isopentyl propionate as resolving agent. After evaluation of both components, the complete dynamic kinetic resolution of an aliphatic amine was established with good selectivity (97%), enantiomeric excess (96%) and a yield exceeding the kinetic resolution limit of 50%.
- Adriaensen, Koen,Vercammen, Jannick,Van Goethem, Cédric,Eyley, Samuel,Vankelecom, Ivo,Thielemans, Wim,De Vos, Dirk
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- Separate Sets of Mutations Enhance Activity and Substrate Scope of Amine Dehydrogenase
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Mutations were introduced into the leucine amine dehydrogenase (L-AmDH) derived from G. stearothermophilus leucine dehydrogenase (LeuDH) with the goals of increased activity and expanded substrate acceptance. A triple variant (L-AmDH-TV) including D32A, F101S, and C290V showed an average of 2.5-fold higher activity toward aliphatic ketones and an 8.0 °C increase in melting temperature. L-AmDH-TV did not show significant changes in relative activity for different substrates. In contrast, L39A, L39G, A112G, and T133G in varied combinations added to L-AmDH-TV changed the shape of the substrate binding pocket. L-AmDH-TV was not active on ketones larger than 2-hexanone. L39A and L39G enabled activity for straight-chain ketones as large as 2-decanone and in combination with A112G enabled activity toward longer branched ketones including 5-methyl-2-octanone.
- Franklin, Robert D.,Mount, Conner J.,Bommarius, Bettina R.,Bommarius, Andreas S.
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(2020/04/16)
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- Development of an engineered thermostable amine dehydrogenase for the synthesis of structurally diverse chiral amines
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Amine dehydrogenases (AmDHs) are emerging as a class of attractive biocatalysts for synthesizing chiral amines via asymmetric reductive amination of ketones with inexpensive ammonia as an amino donor. However, the AmDHs developed to date exhibit limited substrate scope. Here, using directed evolution, we engineered a GkAmDH based on a thermostable phenylalanine dehydrogenase from Geobacillus kaustophilus. The newly developed AmDH is able to catalyze reductive amination of a diverse set of ketones and functionalized hydroxy ketones with ammonia or primary amines with up to >99% conversion, thus accessing structurally diverse chiral primary and secondary amines and chiral vicinal amino alcohols, with excellent enantioselectivity (up to >99% ee) and releasing water as the sole by-product.
- Chen, Fei-Fei,Chen, Qi,Liu, Lei,Wang, Dong-Hao,Wang, Zhi-Long,Xu, Jian-He,Zhang, Zhi-Jun,Zheng, Gao-Wei
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(2020/05/13)
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- Asymmetric synthesis of primary amines catalyzed by thermotolerant fungal reductive aminases
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Chiral primary amines are important intermediates in the synthesis of pharmaceutical compounds. Fungal reductive aminases (RedAms) are NADPH-dependent dehydrogenases that catalyse reductive amination of a range of ketones with short-chain primary amines supplied in an equimolar ratio to give corresponding secondary amines. Herein we describe structural and biochemical characterisation as well as synthetic applications of two RedAms fromNeosartoryaspp. (NfRedAm andNfisRedAm) that display a distinctive activity amongst fungal RedAms, namely a superior ability to use ammonia as the amine partner. Using these enzymes, we demonstrate the synthesis of a broad range of primary amines, with conversions up to >97% and excellent enantiomeric excess. Temperature dependent studies showed that these homologues also possess greater thermal stability compared to other enzymes within this family. Their synthetic applicability is further demonstrated by the production of several primary and secondary amines with turnover numbers (TN) up to 14 000 as well as continous flow reactions, obtaining chiral amines such as (R)-2-aminohexane in space time yields up to 8.1 g L?1h?1. The remarkable features ofNfRedAmand NfisRedAm highlight their potential for wider synthetic application as well as expanding the biocatalytic toolbox available for chiral amine synthesis.
- Cosgrove, Sebastian C.,Grogan, Gideon,Mangas-Sanchez, Juan,Marshall, James R.,Palmer, Ryan B.,Ramsden, Jeremy I.,Sharma, Mahima,Thorpe, Thomas W.,Turner, Nicholas J.
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- Ruthenium Catalyzed Direct Asymmetric Reductive Amination of Simple Aliphatic Ketones Using Ammonium Iodide and Hydrogen
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The direct conversion of ketones into chiral primary amines is a key transformation in chemistry. Here, we present a ruthenium catalyzed asymmetric reductive amination (ARA) of purely aliphatic ketones with good yields and moderate enantioselectivity: up to 99 percent yield and 74 percent ee. The strategy involves [Ru(PPh3)3H(CO)Cl] in combination with the ligand (S,S)-f-binaphane as the catalyst, NH4I as the amine source and H2 as the reductant. This is a straightforward and user-friendly process to access industrially relevant chiral aliphatic primary amines. Although the enantioselectivity with this approach is only moderate, to the extent of our knowledge, the maximum ee of 74 percent achieved with this system is the highest reported till now apart from enzyme catalysis for the direct transformation of ketones into chiral aliphatic primary amines.
- Ernst, Martin,Ghosh, Tamal,Hashmi, A. Stephen K.,Schaub, Thomas
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- Upgraded Bioelectrocatalytic N2 Fixation: From N2 to Chiral Amine Intermediates
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Enantiomerically pure chiral amines are of increasing value in the preparation of bioactive compounds, pharmaceuticals, and agrochemicals. ω-Transaminase (ω-TA) is an ideal catalyst for asymmetric amination because of its excellent enantioselectivity and wide substrate scope. To shift the equilibrium of reactions catalyzed by ω-TA to the side of the amine product, an upgraded N2 fixation system based on bioelectrocatalysis was developed to realize the conversion from N2 to chiral amine intermediates. The produced NH3 was in situ reacted with l-alanine dehydrogenase to generate alanine with NADH as a coenzyme. ω-TA transferred the amino group from alanine to ketone substrates and finally produced the desired chiral amine intermediates. The cathode of the upgraded N2 fixation system supplied enough reducing power to synchronously realize the regeneration of reduced methyl viologen (MV?+) and NADH for the nitrogenase and l-alanine dehydrogenase. The coproduct, pyruvate, was consumed by l-alanine dehydrogenase to regenerate alanine and push the equilibrium to the side of amine. After 10 h of reaction, the concentration of 1-methyl-3-phenylpropylamine achieved 0.54 mM with the 27.6% highest faradaic efficiency and >99% enantiomeric excess (eep). Because of the wide substrate scope and excellent enantioselectivity of ω-TA, the upgraded N2 fixation system has great potential to produce a variety of chiral amine intermediates for pharmaceuticals and other applications.
- Chen, Hui,Cai, Rong,Patel, Janki,Dong, Fangyuan,Chen, Hsiaonung,Minteer, Shelley D.
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p. 4963 - 4971
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- Efficient synthesis of enantiopure amines from alcohols using resting: E. coli cells and ammonia
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α-Chiral amines are pivotal building blocks for chemical manufacturing. Stereoselective amination of alcohols is receiving increased interest due to its higher atom-efficiency and overall improved environmental footprint compared with other chemocatalytic and biocatalytic methods. We previously developed a hydrogen-borrowing amination by combining an alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) with an amine dehydrogenase (AmDH) in vitro. Herein, we implemented the ADH-AmDH bioamination in resting Escherichia coli cells for the first time. Different genetic constructs were created and tested in order to obtain balanced expression levels of the dehydrogenase enzymes in E. coli. Using the optimized constructs, the influence of several parameters towards the productivity of the system were investigated such as the intracellular NAD+/NADH redox balance, the cell loading, the survival rate of recombinant E. coli cells, the possible toxicity of the components of the reaction at different concentrations and the influence of different substrates and cosolvents. In particular, the cofactor redox-balance for the bioamination was maintained by the addition of moderate and precise amounts of glucose. Higher concentrations of certain amine products resulted in toxicity and cell death, which could be alleviated by the addition of a co-solvent. Notably, amine formation was consistent using several independently grown E. coli batches. The optimized E. coli/ADH-AmDH strains produced enantiopure amines from the alcohols with up to 80% conversion and a molar productivity up to 15 mM. Practical applicability was demonstrated in a gram-scale biotransformation. In summary, the present E. coli-ADH-AmDH system represents an important advancement towards the development of 'green', efficient and selective biocatalytic processes for the amination of alcohols.
- Houwman, Joseline A.,Knaus, Tanja,Costa, Magda,Mutti, Francesco G.
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- Reshaping the Active Pocket of Amine Dehydrogenases for Asymmetric Synthesis of Bulky Aliphatic Amines
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The asymmetric reductive amination of ketones with ammonia using engineered amine dehydrogenases (AmDHs) is a particularly attractive and environmentally friendly method for the synthesis of chiral amines. However, one major challenge for these engineered AmDHs is their limited range of accepted substrates. Herein, several engineered AmDHs were developed through the evolution of naturally occurring leucine dehydrogenases, which displayed good amination activity toward aliphatic ketones but restricted catalytic scope for short-chain substrates. Computational analysis helped identify two residues, located at the distal end of the substrate-binding cavity, that generate steric hindrance and prevent the binding of bulky aliphatic ketones. By fine-tuning these two key hotspots, the resulting AmDH mutants are able to accept previously inaccessible bulky substrates. More importantly, the mutations were also proved applicable for expanding the substrate scope of other homologous AmDHs with sequence identities as low as 70%, indicating a broad effect on the development of AmDHs and the synthesis of structurally diverse chiral amines.
- Chen, Fei-Fei,Zheng, Gao-Wei,Liu, Lei,Li, Hao,Chen, Qi,Li, Fu-Long,Li, Chun-Xiu,Xu, Jian-He
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- Vicinal Diamines as Smart Cosubstrates in the Transaminase-Catalyzed Asymmetric Amination of Ketones
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Transaminases (TAs) have recently been established as catalysts for the asymmetric, reductive amination of prochiral ketones. Depending on the ketone substrate and the amine donor (the cosubstrate), equilibrium constants may limit high conversions; thus, methods to overcome this limitation are required. Removal of the co-product from the reaction equilibrium through spontaneous, intramolecular reactions has provided a successful solution to this problem; therefore, these amine donors have been named “smart cosubstrates”. Here, we present a comparison of various bifunctional amine donors including vicinal diamines as potential structural cosubstrate motifs. Upon TA-catalyzed deamination of 1,2-diamines, spontaneous dimerization of the resulting α-aminoketones and oxidation gave heteroaromatic pyrazines.
- Payer, Stefan E.,Schrittwieser, Joerg H.,Kroutil, Wolfgang
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- Amine dehydrogenases: Efficient biocatalysts for the reductive amination of carbonyl compounds
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Amines constitute the major targets for the production of a plethora of chemical compounds that have applications in the pharmaceutical, agrochemical and bulk chemical industries. However, the asymmetric synthesis of α-chiral amines with elevated catalytic efficiency and atom economy is still a very challenging synthetic problem. Here, we investigated the biocatalytic reductive amination of carbonyl compounds employing a rising class of enzymes for amine synthesis: amine dehydrogenases (AmDHs). The three AmDHs from this study-operating in tandem with a formate dehydrogenase from Candida boidinii (Cb-FDH) for the recycling of the nicotinamide coenzyme-performed the efficient amination of a range of diverse aromatic and aliphatic ketones and aldehydes with up to quantitative conversion and elevated turnover numbers (TONs). Moreover, the reductive amination of prochiral ketones proceeded with perfect stereoselectivity, always affording the (R)-configured amines with more than 99% enantiomeric excess. The most suitable amine dehydrogenase, the optimised catalyst loading and the required reaction time were determined for each substrate. The biocatalytic reductive amination with this dual-enzyme system (AmDH-Cb-FDH) possesses elevated atom efficiency as it utilizes the ammonium formate buffer as the source of both nitrogen and reducing equivalents. Inorganic carbonate is the sole by-product.
- Knaus, Tanja,B?hmer, Wesley,Mutti, Francesco G.
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- In vitro biocatalytic pathway design: Orthogonal network for the quantitative and stereospecific amination of alcohols
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The direct and efficient conversion of alcohols into amines is a pivotal transformation in chemistry. Here, we present an artificial, oxidation-reduction, biocatalytic network that employs five enzymes (alcohol dehydrogenase, NADP-oxidase, catalase, amine dehydrogenase and formate dehydrogenase) in two concurrent and orthogonal cycles. The NADP-dependent oxidative cycle converts a diverse range of aromatic and aliphatic alcohol substrates to the carbonyl compound intermediates, whereas the NAD-dependent reductive aminating cycle generates the related amine products with >99% enantiomeric excess (R) and up to >99% conversion. The elevated conversions stem from the favorable thermodynamic equilibrium (K′eq = 1.88 × 1042 and 1.48 × 1041 for the amination of primary and secondary alcohols, respectively). This biocatalytic network possesses elevated atom efficiency, since the reaction buffer (ammonium formate) is both the aminating agent and the source of reducing equivalents. Additionally, only dioxygen is needed, whereas water and carbonate are the by-products. For the oxidative step, we have employed three variants of the NADP-dependent alcohol dehydrogenase from Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus and we have elucidated the origin of the stereoselective properties of these variants with the aid of in silico computational models.
- Knaus, Tanja,Cariati, Luca,Masman, Marcelo F,Mutti, Francesco G.
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- But-2-ene-1,4-diamine and But-2-ene-1,4-diol as Donors for Thermodynamically Favored Transaminase- and Alcohol Dehydrogenase-Catalyzed Processes
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Both cis- and trans-but-2-ene-1,4-diamines have been prepared and efficiently applied as sacrificial cosubstrates in enzymatic transamination reactions. The best results were obtained with the cis-diamine. The thermodynamic equilibrium of the stereoselective transamination process is shifted to the amine formation due to tautomerization of 5H-pyrrole into 1H-pyrrole, achieving high conversions (78–99%) and enantiomeric excess (up to >99%) by using a small excess of the amine donor. Furthermore, when the reaction proceeded, a strong coloration was observed due to polymerization of 1H-pyrrole. A structurally related compound, cis-but-2-ene-1,4-diol, has been utilized as cosubstrate in different alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH)-mediated bioreductions. In this case, high conversions (91–99%) were observed due to a lactonization process. Both strategies are convenient from both synthetic and atom economy points of view in the production of valuable optically active products. (Figure presented.).
- Martínez-Montero, Lía,Gotor, Vicente,Gotor-Fernández, Vicente,Lavandera, Iván
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- Asymmetric Biocatalytic Amination of Ketones at the Expense of NH3 and Molecular Hydrogen
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A biocatalytic system is presented for the stereoselective amination of ketones at the expense of NH3 and molecular hydrogen. By using a NAD+-reducing hydrogenase, an alanine dehydrogenase, and a suitable ω-transaminase, the R- as well as the S-enantiomer of various amines could be prepared with up to >99% ee and 98% conversion. (Chemical Equation Presented).
- Holzer, Anja K.,Hiebler, Katharina,Mutti, Francesco G.,Simon, Robert C.,Lauterbach, Lars,Lenz, Oliver,Kroutil, Wolfgang
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- Conversion of alcohols to enantiopure amines through dual-enzyme hydrogen-borrowing cascades
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α-Chiral amines are key intermediates for the synthesis of a plethora of chemical compounds at industrial scale. We present a biocatalytic hydrogen-borrowing amination of primary and secondary alcohols that allows for the efficient and environmentally benign production of enantiopure amines. The method relies on a combination of two enzymes: an alcohol dehydrogenase (from Aromatoleum sp., Lactobacillus sp., or Bacillus sp.) operating in tandem with an amine dehydrogenase (engineered from Bacillus sp.) to aminate a structurally diverse range of aromatic and aliphatic alcohols, yielding up to 96% conversion and 99% enantiomeric excess. Primary alcohols were aminated with high conversion (up to 99%). This redox self-sufficient cascade possesses high atom efficiency, sourcing nitrogen from ammonium and generating water as the sole by-product.
- Mutti, Francesco G.,Knaus, Tanja,Scrutton, Nigel S.,Breuer, Michael,Turner, Nicholas J.
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- Step-efficient access to chiral primary amines
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Routes to enantioenriched amines are outlined that employ reductive amination and carbanion addition methods. The strategies require either one or two reaction steps from prochiral carbonyl compounds for the synthesis of the corresponding chiral primary amines. Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart New York.
- Nugent, Thomas C.,Marinova, Sofiya M.
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- Nickel nanoparticles as racemization catalysts for primary amines
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By combining bases that are known to racemize benzylic amines with a nickel(II) salt, active nickel nanoparticles were obtained that can be used as catalysts in the racemization of both aliphatic and benzylic primary amines. The nanoparticles are stable in the ionic liquid tetrabutylammonium bromide and can complete most racemizations within a few hours with excellent selectivity. The problem of the incompatibility of the strongly reducing racemization catalyst and the enzymatic amine resolution catalyst was overcome by using a two-pot system with a biphasic racemization step. Consecutive contact of a nonane layer that contained the amine with the acylating enzyme and with the racemizing Ni nanoparticles in the ionic liquid allowed the 50 % amide yield limit of a kinetic resolution to be successfully surpassed. Copyright
- Geukens, Inge,Plessers, Eva,Seo, Jin Won,De Vos, Dirk E.
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- Artificial multi-enzyme networks for the asymmetric amination of sec-alcohols
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Various artificial network designs that involve biocatalysts were tested for the asymmetric amination of sec-alcohols to the corresponding α-chiral primary amines. The artificial systems tested involved three to five redox enzymes and were exemplary of a range of different sec-alcohol substrates. Alcohols were oxidised to the corresponding ketone by an alcohol dehydrogenase. The ketones were subsequently aminated by employing a ω-transaminase. Of special interest were redox-neutral designs in which the hydride abstracted in the oxidation step was reused in the amination step of the cascade. Under optimised conditions up to 91 % conversion of an alcohol to the amine was achieved. Trickle-down effect: The asymmetric amination of sec-alcohols to the corresponding α-chiral primary amines was performed with a biocatalytic cascade whereby the various steps were interconnected through the cofactors/cosubstrates. In a redox-neutral cascade and under optimised conditions, up to 91 % conversion of an alcohol to the amine was achieved. Copyright
- Tauber, Katharina,Fuchs, Michael,Sattler, Johann H.,Pitzer, Julia,Pressnitz, Desiree,Koszelewski, Dominik,Faber, Kurt,Pfeffer, Jan,Haas, Thomas,Kroutil, Wolfgang
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- Asymmetric bio-amination of ketones in organic solvents
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ω-Transaminases, employed as a lyophilised crude cell-free extract, were successfully employed in organic solvent for the asymmetric amination of ketones without the need for immobilisation. Best activity was found for methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) at a water activity of 0.6. The ω-transaminases (9 different enzymes) accepted efficiently 2-propylamine as amine donor when used in the solvent, which is not the case when they are used in aqueous solution. The bio-amination in organic solvent showed several advantages such as higher reaction rates (up to 17-fold), general acceptance of 2-propylamine as amine donor, simple work-up procedure (i.e., no basification and extraction required), easy recycling of the catalyst and lack of substrate inhibition. The biocatalysts maintained their excellent stereoselectivity in MTBE allowing the preparation of optically pure amines (ee >99%) with up to >99% conversion.
- Mutti, Francesco G.,Kroutil, Wolfgang
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- ω-Transaminase-catalyzed kinetic resolution of chiral amines using l-threonine as an amino acceptor precursor
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Kinetic resolution of chiral amines using l-threonine as a cosubstrate was demonstrated by a biocatalytic strategy in which (S)-selective ω-transaminase (ω-TA) was coupled with threonine deaminase (TD), eliminating the need to use an expensive keto acid as an amino acceptor. The coupled enzyme reaction enabled simultaneous production of enantiopure (R)-amine and l-homoalanine which are pharmaceutically important building blocks. To extend the versatility of this strategy to production of both enantiomers of chiral amines, (R)-selective ω-TA coupled with TD was employed to produce (S)-amine.
- Malik, M. Shaheer,Park, Eul-Soo,Shin, Jong-Shik
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p. 2137 - 2140
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- Sequential reductive amination-hydrogenolysis: A one-pot synthesis of challenging chiral primary amines
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Difficult-to-access chiral primary amines were formed in good to high yield and ee using a rare example of a one-pot synthesis from prochiral ketones (sequential reductive amination-hydrogenloysis). As a highlight we also demonstrate a one-pot reductive amination-hydrogenolysis-reductive amination (five reactions) of ortho-methoxyacetophenone resulting in the chiral diamine 1-(2-methoxyphenyl)ethyl-(2-pyridylmethyl)-amine (4) (58% overall yield, >99% ee), a new organocatalyst for aqueous enantioselective aldol reactions. Copyright
- Nugent, Thomas C.,Negru, Daniela E.,El-Shazly, Mohamed,Hu, Dan,Sadiq, Abdul,Bibi, Ahtaram,Umar, M. Naveed
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p. 2085 - 2092
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- Stereoselectivity of four (R)-selective transaminases for the asymmetric amination of ketones
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Four (R)-ω-transaminases originating from Hyphomonas neptunium (HN-ωTA), Aspergillus terreus (AT-ωTA) and Arthrobacter sp. (ArR-ωTA), as well as an evolved transaminase (ArRmut11-ωTA) were successfully employed for the amination of prochiral ketones leading to optically pure (R)-amines. The first three transaminases displayed perfect stereoselectivity for the amination of all substrates tested (ee >99%). Furthermore, the transaminase AT-ωTA led in most cases to better conversion than ArR-ωTA and HN-ωTA using D-alanine as amine donor. α-Tetralone, which was the only substrate not accepted by HN-ωTA, ArR-ωTA, and AT-ωTA, was successfully transformed with perfect enantioselectivity (ee >99%) into the corresponding optically pure amine employing the variant ArRmut11-ωTA. Copyright
- Mutti, Francesco G.,Fuchs, Christine S.,Pressnitz, Desiree,Sattler, Johann H.,Kroutil, Wolfgang
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- A direct and stereoretentive synthesis of amides from cyclic alcohols
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Chlorosulfites prepared in situ using thionyl chloride react with nitrile complexes of titanium(IV) fluoride to give a one-pot conversion of alcohols into amides. For the first time, amides are obtained from cyclic alcohols with stereoretention. Critical to the design of these new TiIV reactions has been the use of little-explored TiIV nitrile complexes that are thought to chelate chlorosulfites in the transition state tocreate a carbocation that is rapidly captured by the nitrile nucleophile through a front-side attack mechanism.
- Mondal, Deboprosad,Bellucci, Luca,Lepore, Salvatore D.
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p. 7057 - 7061
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- Chemoenzymatic dynamic kinetic resolution of primary amines catalyzed by CAL-B at 38-40°c
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The (R)-selective chemoenzymatic dynamic kinetic resolution of primary amines was performed at 38-40 °C in MTBE, in good to high yields and with high enantiomeric excesses. These reactions associating CAL-B to octanethiol as radical racemizing agent were carried out in the presence of methyl β-methoxy propanoate as acyl donor, under photochemical irradiation at 350 nm in glassware.
- Poulhes, Florent,Vanthuyne, Nicolas,Bertrand, Michele P.,Gastaldi, Stephane,Gil, Gerard
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- Asymmetric intermolecular hydroamination of unactivated alkenes with simple amines
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A hard nut to crack: The asymmetric intermolecular Markovnikov addition of simple amines to unactivated alkenes can be achieved utilizing binaphtholate rare-earth-metal catalysts with up to 61% ee and 73% de in the case where R 2 contains a stereogenic center.
- Reznichenko, Alexander L.,Nguyen, Hiep N.,Hultzsch, Kai C.
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p. 8984 - 8987
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- Ytterbium acetate promoted asymmetric reductive amination: Significantly enhanced stereoselectivity
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(Chemical Equation Presented) Reductive amination of prochiral unhindered 2-alkanones 1 with (R)- or (S)-α-MBA in the presence of Yb(OAc) 3 (50-110 mol %), Raney-Ni, and hydrogen (120 psi) results in increased diastereoselectivity for the amine products 2 (80-89% de) with good yield (80-87%). The increased de is based on comparison with the best previously reported de's when using (R)- or (S)-α-MBA, regardless of the strategy employed [stepwise (isolation of ketimines) or one-pot (reductive amination)], reducing agent examined, or achiral Lewis acid or Bronsted acid examined. An in situ cis- to trans-ketimine isomerization mechanism, promoted by Yb(OAc)3, has been proposed to account for the observed increase in diastereoselectivity and suggests a new entry into the control of ketimine geometry.
- Nugent, Thomas C.,El-Shazly, Mohamed,Wakchaure, Vijay N.
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- Asymmetric synthesis of optically pure pharmacologically relevant amines employing ω-transaminases
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Various ω-transaminases were tested for the synthesis of enantiomerically pure amines from the corresponding ketones employing D- or L-alanine as amino donor and lactate dehydrogenase to remove the side-product pyruvate to shift the unfavourable reaction equilibrium to the product side. Both enantiomers, (R)- and (S)-amines, could be prepared with up to 99% ee and >99% conversions within 24 h at 50 mM substrate concentration. The activity and stereoselectivity of the amination reaction depended on the ω-transaminase and substrate employed; furthermore the co-solvent significantly influenced both the stereoselectivity and activity of the transaminases. Best results were obtained by employing ATA-117 to obtain the (R)-enantiomer and ATA-113 or ATA-103 to access the (S)-enantiomer with 15% v v-1 DMSO.
- Koszelewski, Dominik,Lavandera, Ivan,Clay, Dorina,Rozzell, David,Kroutil, Wolfgang
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- Formal asymmetric biocatalytic reductive amination
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All for one: A combination of three biocatalysts (ω-transaminase, alanine dehydrogenase, and an enzyme such as formate dehydrogenase for cofactor recycling) catalyze a cascade to achieve the asymmetric transformation of a ketone into a primary α-chiral unprotected amine through a formal stereoselective reductive amination (see scheme). Only ammonia and the reducing agent (formate) are consumed during this reaction. (Chemical Equation Presented).
- Koszelewski, Dominik,Lavandera, Ivan,Clay, Dorina,Guebitz, Georg M.,Rozzell, David,Kroutil, Wolfgang
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p. 9337 - 9340
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- 2-(1,3-Dioxan-2-yl)ethylsulfonyl group: A new versatile protecting and activating group for amine synthesis
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(Chemical Equation Presented) 2-(1,3-Dioxan-2-yl)ethylsulfonyl (Dios) chloride was synthesized and used as a new versatile sulfonating agent for amines. Primary and secondary amines were sulfonated very easily in excellent yields with Dios chloride. N-Nonsubstituted and N-monosubstituted Dios-amides, activated amines, were alkylated satisfactorily under new Mitsunobu conditions utilizing (cyanomethylene)tributylphosphorane (CMBP). The Dios group is very stable under basic and reductive conditions and is removed by heating in a hot aqueous solution of trifluoroacetic acid.
- Sakamoto, Izumi,Izumi, Norimasa,Yamada, Taeko,Tsunoda, Tetsuto
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- New protocol for converting alcohols into amines
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The reactions between diethyl N-(t-butoxycarbonyl)phosphoramidate 1, diisopropyl azodicarboxylate (DIAD), triphenylphosphine (TPP) and primary or secondary alcohols lead to the corresponding diethyl N-alkyl-N-(t-butoxycarbonyl)phosphoramidates 2a-o. Deprotection of crude 2 by refluxing with p-toluenesulfonic acid monohydrate in ethanol affords ammonium tosylates 3a-o in moderate to good overall yields. The N-alkylation of 1 proceeds stereoselectively with complete inversion of the configuration of the alkyl group.
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- ASYMMETRIC REDUCTION OF OXIME ETHERS. DISTINCTION OF ANTI AND SYN ISOMERS LEADING TO ENANTIOMERIC AMINES.
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Anti and syn ketoxime ethers were reduced with a chiral reducing agent prepared from (-)-norephedrine and 2 eq of BH3 to give S and R amines respectively in up to 92percentee.The preferred absolute configuration of the amine was dependent on the geometry of the oxime ether.
- Sakito, Yoji,Yoneyoshi, Yukio,Suzukamo, Gohfu
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- Asymmetric Syntheses. Part 11. Reduction of Ketones and Related Ketone Oximes with Lithium Aluminium Hydride-3-O-cyclohexylmethyl-1,2-O-cyclohexylidene-α-D-glucofuranose Complex to give Optically Active Alcohols and Amines
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The asymmetric reduction of ketones and structurally related isoelectronic ketone oximes with lithium aluminium hydride-3-O-cyclohexylmethyl-1,2-O-cyclohexylidene-α-D-glucofuranose complex yields optically active alcohols of up to 42percent optical purity and optically active amines of up to 52percent optical purity, respectively.The resulting alcohols as well as amines all have the S-configuration.When the asymmetric reduction is carried out with the ethanol-modified glucofuranose complex, the resulting alcohols and amines have the R-configuration.
- Landor, Stephen R.,Chan, Yuet M.,Sonola, Olutunji O.,Tatchell, Austin R.
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