7533-40-6Relevant articles and documents
Palladium(0)-Catalyzed Enantioselective Intramolecular Arylation of Enantiotopic Secondary C?H Bonds
Melot, Romain,Zuccarello, Marco,Cavalli, Diana,Niggli, Nadja,Devereux, Michael,Bürgi, Thomas,Baudoin, Olivier
supporting information, p. 7245 - 7250 (2021/02/12)
The enantioselective functionalization of nonactivated enantiotopic secondary C?H bonds is one of the greatest challenges in transition-metal-catalyzed C?H activation proceeding by an inner-sphere mechanism. Such reactions have remained elusive within the realm of Pd0 catalysis. Reported here is the unique reactivity profile of the IBiox ligand family in the Pd0-catalyzed intramolecular arylation of such nonactivated secondary C?H bonds. Chiral C2-symmetric IBiox ligands led to high enantioselectivities for a broad range of valuable indane products containing a tertiary stereocenter, as well as the arylation of secondary C?H bonds adjacent to amides. Depending on the amide substituents and upon control of reaction time, indanes containing labile tertiary stereocenters were also obtained with high enantioselectivities. Analysis of the steric maps of the IBiox ligands indicated that the level of enantioselectivity correlates with the difference between the two most occupied and the two less occupied space quadrants, and provided a blueprint for the design of even more efficient ligands.
Leveraging Peptaibol Biosynthetic Promiscuity for Next-Generation Antiplasmodial Therapeutics
Lee, Jin Woo,Collins, Jennifer E.,Wendt, Karen L.,Chakrabarti, Debopam,Cichewicz, Robert H.
supporting information, p. 503 - 517 (2021/03/01)
Malaria remains a worldwide threat, afflicting over 200 million people each year. The emergence of drug resistance against existing therapeutics threatens to destabilize global efforts aimed at controlling Plasmodium spp. parasites, which is expected to leave vast portions of humanity unprotected against the disease. To address this need, systematic testing of a fungal natural product extract library assembled through the University of Oklahoma Citizen Science Soil Collection Program has generated an initial set of bioactive extracts that exhibit potent antiplasmodial activity (EC50 25 μM, selectivity index > 250). The unique chemodiversity afforded by these fungal isolates serves to unlock new opportunities for translating peptaibols into a bioactive scaffold worthy of further development.
Data mining of amine dehydrogenases for the synthesis of enantiopure amino alcohols
Guo, Jinggong,Li, Jun-Kuan,Ma, Jun-An,Miao, Yuchen,Qu, Ge,Sun, Zhoutong,Wang, Hongyue
, p. 5945 - 5952 (2020/10/08)
Chiral amino alcohols are essential building blocks for the pharmaceutical industry, and are widely present in natural and synthetic bioactive compounds. Amine dehydrogenases (AmDHs) can asymmetrically reduce prochiral ketones with low-cost ammonia to chiral amines and water as by-products, using NAD(P)H as a cofactor under mild conditions, but hydroxy ketones with formation of chiral hydroxy amines have rarely been investigated. In this study, six new bacterial AmDHs derived from amino acid dehydrogenases (AADHs) were identified by data mining, and five out of the six enzymes were able to efficiently reduce 1-hydroxybutan-2-one (1a) to (S)-2-aminobutan-1-ol ((S)-2a) with 19-99% conversions and 99% ee. The five AmDHs were purified and biochemically characterized for reductive amination activity towards substrate 1a with the optimal pH at 8.5 or 9.0 and the optimal temperature at 45 °C, 50 °C or 55 °C, and provided reductive amination of a broad range of prochiral α-hydroxy ketones, and even of a model β-hydroxy ketone leading to β-hydroxy amine with 99% ee. Our study expands the toolbox of AmDHs in the synthesis of chiral amino alcohols.
