4286-15-1Relevant articles and documents
Enantioselective α-alkylation of phenylacetic acid using a chiral bidentate lithium amide as a chiral auxiliary
Matsuo, Jun-Ichi,Koga, Kenji
, p. 2122 - 2124 (1997)
Enantioselective alkylation at the α-position of phenylacetic acid (1) can be realized in up to 68% ee by treating the dilithiated 1 with alkyl halides in the presence of a chiral bidentate lithium amicle ((R)-3).
Modeling and optimization of lipase-catalyzed hydrolysis for production of (S)-2-phenylbutyric acid enhanced by hydroxyethyl-β-cyclodextrin
Zhang, Panliang,Cheng, Qing,Xu, Weifeng,Tang, Kewen
, p. 96 - 103 (2019/05/27)
An efficient reactive system was established to produce (S)-2-phenylbutyric acid (2-PBA) through the enzymatic enantioselective hydrolysis of 2-phenylbutyrate ester (2-PBAE) in aqueous medium. Lipase CALA from Canadian antarctica and hexyl 2-phenylbutyrate (2-PBAHE) were identified upon screening as the best enzyme and substrate, respectively. Adding hydroxyethyl-β-cyclodextrin (HE-β-CD) to improve the solubility of the substrate resulted in a 1.5 times increase in substrate conversion while retaining a high enantioselectivity compared with that when HE-β-CD was not added. The effects of lipase concentration, substrate concentration and HE-β-CD concentration, temperature, pH, and reaction time on enantiomeric excess and conversion rate were investigated, and the optimal conditions were identified using response surface methodology (RSM). Under the optimal conditions, namely 50 mg/mL lipase CALA, 30 mmol/L substrate, 60 mmol/L HE-β-CD, pH of 6.5, temperature of 83 °C and reaction time of 18 h, the enantiomeric excess and overall conversion rate were 96.05% and 27.28%, respectively. This work provides an efficient alternative method for improving the conversion of aromatic ester substrates by including β-cyclodextrin in an aqueous hydrolysis reaction system.
Substrate evaluation of rhodococcus erythropolis SET1, a nitrile hydrolysing bacterium, demonstrating dual activity strongly dependent on nitrile sub-structure
Coady, Tracey M.,Coffey, Lee V.,O'Reilly, Catherine,Lennon, Claire M.
supporting information, p. 1108 - 1116 (2015/02/19)
Assessment of Rhodococcus erythropolis SET1, a novel nitrile hydrolysing bacterial isolate, has been undertaken with 34 nitriles, 33 chiral and 1 prochiral. These substrates consist primarily of β-hydroxy nitriles with varying alkyl and aryl groups at the β position and containing in several compounds different substituents α to the nitrile. In the case of β-hydroxy nitriles without substitution at the α position, acids were the major products obtained, along with recovered nitrile after biotransformation, as a result of suspected nitrilase activity of the isolate. Unexpectedly, amides were found to be the major hydrolysis product when the β-hydroxy nitriles possessed a vinyl group at this position. To probe this behaviour further, additional related substrates were evaluated containing electron-withdrawing groups at the α position, and amide was also observed upon biotransformation in the presence of SET1. Therefore this novel isolate has also demonstrated NHase activity with nitriles that appears to be substrate-dependent.