17429-32-2Relevant articles and documents
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Yamada,Otani
, p. 4237 (1969)
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Quantitative production of butenes from biomass-derived γ-valerolactone catalysed by hetero-atomic MFI zeolite
Lin, Longfei,Sheveleva, Alena M.,da Silva, Ivan,Parlett, Christopher M. A.,Tang, Zhimou,Liu, Yueming,Fan, Mengtian,Han, Xue,Carter, Joseph H.,Tuna, Floriana,McInnes, Eric J. L.,Cheng, Yongqiang,Daemen, Luke L.,Rudi?, Svemir,Ramirez-Cuesta, Anibal J.,Tang, Chiu C.,Yang, Sihai
, p. 86 - 93 (2019/12/30)
The efficient production of light olefins from renewable biomass is a vital and challenging target to achieve future sustainable chemical processes. Here we report a hetero-atomic MFI-type zeolite (NbAlS-1), over which aqueous solutions of γ-valerolactone (GVL), obtained from biomass-derived carbohydrates, can be quantitatively converted into butenes with a yield of >99% at ambient pressure under continuous flow conditions. NbAlS-1 incorporates simultaneously niobium(v) and aluminium(iii) centres into the framework and thus has a desirable distribution of Lewis and Br?nsted acid sites with optimal strength. Synchrotron X-ray diffraction and absorption spectroscopy show that there is cooperativity between Nb(v) and the Br?nsted acid sites on the confined adsorption of GVL, whereas the catalytic mechanism for the conversion of the confined GVL into butenes is revealed by in situ inelastic neutron scattering, coupled with modelling. This study offers a prospect for the sustainable production of butene as a platform chemical for the manufacture of renewable materials.
Asymmetric Baeyer - Villiger oxidations of 4-mono- and 4,4-disubstituted cyclohexanones by whole cells of engineered Escherichia coli
Mihovilovic,Chen,Wang,Kyte,Rochon,Kayser,Stewart
, p. 733 - 738 (2007/10/03)
Whole cells of an Escherichia coli strain that overexpresses Acinetobacter sp. NCIB 9871 cyclohexanone monooxygenase have been used for the Baeyer-Villiger oxidations of a variety of 4-mono- and 4,4-disubstituted cyclohexanones. In cases where comparisons were possible, this new biocatalytic reagent provided lactones with chemical yields and optical purities that were comparable to those obtained from the purified enzyme or a strain of bakers' yeast that expresses the same enzyme. The efficient production of cyclohexanone monooxygenase in the E. coli expression system (ca. 30% of total soluble protein) allowed these oxidations to reach completion in approximately half the time required for the engineered bakers' yeast strain. Surprisingly, 4,4-disubstituted cyclohexanones were also accepted by the enzyme, and the enantioselectivities of these oxidations could be rationalized by considering the conformational energies of bound substrates along with the enzyme's intrinsic enantioselectivity. The enzyme expressed in E. coli cells also oxidized several 4-substituted cyclohexanones bearing polar substituents, often with high enantioselectivities. In the case of 4-iodocyclohexanone, the lactone was obtained in > 98% ee and its absolute configuration was assigned by X-ray crystallography. The crystal belongs to the monoclinic P21 space group with a = 5.7400(10), b = 6.1650(10), c = 11.377(2) A, b = 99.98(2)°, and Z = 2. Taken together, these results demonstrate the utility of an engineered bacterial strain in delivering useful chiral building blocks in an experimentally simple manner.
