918819-00-8Relevant articles and documents
Enantioselective microbial hydrolysis of dissymmetrical cyclic carbonates with disubstitution
Nogawa, Masaki,Sugawara, Satomi,Iizuka, Rie,Shimojo, Megumi,Ohta, Hiromichi,Hatanaka, Minoru,Matsumoto, Kazutsugu
, p. 12071 - 12083 (2007/10/03)
Enantioselective microbial hydrolysis of C1 and C2 dissymmetrical cyclic carbonates with disubstitution (methyl and another groups) has been developed. Pseudomonas diminuta (FU0090), a bacterium, efficiently catalyzes the hydrolysis of five-membered cyclic carbonates. While the trans-substrates are hydrolyzed with low enantioselectivities and/or reactivities, the microbe hydrolyzes the cis-substrates with very high enantioselectivities to afford the corresponding almost optically pure anti-(2R,3S)-diols. On the other hand, six-membered trans-cyclic carbonates are enantioselectively hydrolyzed to afford the corresponding optically active syn-(2R,4R)-diols, although the hydrolysis of the cis-substrates gives racemic compounds. In all cases, the enzyme prefers the (R)-enantiomer for the carbon atom bearing a methyl group.
