2612-36-4Relevant articles and documents
Steric vs. electronic effects in the Lactobacillus brevis ADH-catalyzed bioreduction of ketones
Rodriguez, Cristina,Borzecka, Wioleta,Sattler, Johann H.,Kroutil, Wolfgang,Lavandera, Ivan,Gotor, Vicente
, p. 673 - 681 (2014/01/06)
Lactobacillus brevis ADH (LBADH) is an alcohol dehydrogenase that is commonly employed to reduce alkyl or aryl ketones usually bearing a methyl, an ethyl or a chloromethyl as a small ketone substituent to the corresponding (R)-alcohols. Herein we have tested a series of 24 acetophenone derivatives differing in their size and electronic properties for their reduction employing LBADH. After plotting the relative activity against the measured substrate volumes we observed that apart from the substrate size other effects must be responsible for the activity obtained. Compared to acetophenone (100% relative activity), other small substrates such as propiophenone, α,α, α-trifluoroacetophenone, α-hydroxyacetophenone, and benzoylacetonitrile had relative activities lower than 30%, while medium-sized ketones such as α-bromo-, α,α-dichloro-, and α,α-dibromoacetophenone presented relative activities between 70% and 550%. Moreover, the comparison between the enzymatic activity and the obtained final conversions using an excess or just 2.5 equiv. of the hydrogen donor 2-propanol, denoted again deviations between them. These data supported that these hydrogen transfer (HT) transformations are mainly thermodynamically controlled. For instance, bulky α-halogenated derivatives could be quantitatively reduced by LBADH even employing 2.5 equiv. of 2-propanol independently of their kinetic values. Finally, we found good correlations between the IR absorption band of the carbonyl groups and the degrees of conversion obtained in these HT processes, making this simple method a convenient tool to predict the success of these transformations. The Royal Society of Chemistry.
Efficient partial hydrogenation of trichloromethyl to gem-dichloromethyl groups in platinum on carbon-catalyzed system
Sawama, Yoshinari,Imanishi, Takahiro,Nakatani, Ryosuke,Fujiwara, Yuta,Monguchi, Yasunari,Sajiki, Hironao
supporting information, p. 4540 - 4546 (2014/06/10)
While gem-dichloromethyl groups can be directly synthesized by the mono-dechlorination of the corresponding trichloromethyl groups, the suppression control of the over-reduction to form chloromethyl or methyl functionalities is quite difficult. We have established the efficient and widely applicable mono-dechlorination method of the trichloromethyl groups to form the corresponding gem-dichloromethyl groups using platinum on carbon in dimethylacetamide as a specific solvent at 25 °C under a hydrogen atmosphere. The mono-dechlorination of the α,α,α- trichloromethylcarbonyl groups smoothly proceeded by the use of platinum on carbon as a catalyst in a highly chemoselective manner, while the efficient mono-dechlorination of the alkyl- and aryl-trichloromethyl groups required the combined use of Bu3SnH.
Laccase/TEMPO-mediated system for the thermodynamically disfavored oxidation of 2,2-dihalo-1-phenylethanol derivatives
Kedziora, Kinga,Diaz-Rodriguez, Alba,Lavandera, Ivan,Gotor-Fernandez, Vicente,Gotor, Vicente
supporting information, p. 2448 - 2453 (2014/05/06)
An efficient methodology to oxidize β,β-dihalogenated secondary alcohols employing oxygen was achieved in a biphasic medium using the laccase from Trametes versicolor/TEMPO pair, providing the corresponding ketones in a clean fashion under very mild conditions. Moreover, a chemoenzymatic protocol has been applied successfully to deracemize 2,2-dichloro-1-phenylethanol combining this oxidation with an alcohol dehydrogenase-catalyzed bioreduction. the Partner Organisations 2014.
