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Synthetic studies on d-biotin, part 8: An efficient chemoenzymatic approach to the asymmetric total synthesis of d-biotin via a polymer-supported PLE-mediated desymmetrization of meso-symmetic dicarboxylic esters
Chen, Fen-Er,Chen, Xu-Xiang,Dai, Hui-Fang,Kuang, Yun-Yan,Xie, Bin,Zhao, Jian-Feng
, p. 549 - 554 (2007/10/03)
A practical chemoenzymatic method for the asymmetric total synthesis of d-biotin (1) starting from the commercially available cis-1,3-dibenzyl-2- imidazolidone-4,5-dicarboxylic acid (2) has been developed. The key step of the synthesis is the highly enantioselective hydrolysis of meso-dicarboxylic esters by a polymer-supported pig liver esterase and introduction of a formyl group at the C-4 position in 4 via a Grignard reaction. The polymer-supported PLE can be recovered quantitatively from the reaction mixture by simple filtration and reused without significant loss of activity.