174817-06-2Relevant articles and documents
Chemoenzymatic synthesis of trans -tetrahydrofuran cores of annonaceous acetogenins from bromobenzene
Ramos, Juan Carlos,Brovetto, Margarita,Seoane, Gustavo A.
, p. 1982 - 1985 (2013/06/05)
Two types of trans-THF cores, present in acetogenins, have been synthesized by an intramolecular iodoetherification reaction. The starting alkenol was obtained in a few steps from a chiral cis-diol resulting from microbial oxidation of bromobenzene. The cyclization gave complete stereoselectivity for trans-THF cores with either (S,S) or (R,R) configurations at the THF chiral carbons.
Chemoenzymatic synthesis of monocyclic arene oxides and arene hydrates from substituted benzene substrates
Boyd, Derek R.,Sharma, Narain D.,Ljubez, Vera,McGeehin, Peter K. M.,Stevenson, Paul J.,Blain, Marine,Allen, Christopher C. R.
, p. 3020 - 3029 (2013/07/26)
Enantiopure cis-dihydrodiol bacterial metabolites of substituted benzene substrates were used as precursors, in a chemoenzymatic synthesis of the corresponding benzene oxides and of a substituted oxepine, via dihydrobenzene oxide intermediates. A rapid total racemization of the substituted benzene 2,3-oxides was found to have occurred, via their oxepine valence tautomers, in accord with predictions and theoretical calculations. Reduction of a substituted arene oxide to yield a racemic arene hydrate was observed. Arene hydrates have also been synthesised, in enantiopure form, from the corresponding dihydroarene oxide or trans-bromoacetate precursors. Biotransformation of one arene hydrate enantiomer resulted in a toluene-dioxygenase catalysed cis-dihydroxylation to yield a benzene cis-triol metabolite. The Royal Society of Chemistry 2013.
Chemoenzymatic formal synthesis of (-)- and (+)-epibatidine
Boyd, Derek R.,Sharma, Narain D.,Kaik, Magdalena,McIntyre, Peter B. A.,Stevenson, Paul J.,Allen, Christopher C. R.
, p. 2774 - 2779,6 (2020/08/31)
The cis-dihydrocatechol, derived from enzymatic cis-dihydroxylation of bromobenzene using the microorganism Pseudomonas putida UV4, was converted into (-)-epibatidine in eleven steps with complete stereocontrol. In addition, an unprecedented palladium-catalysed disproportionation reaction gave the (+)-enantiomer of an advanced key intermediate employed in a previous synthesis of epibatidine.