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Biocatalytic Aldol Addition of Simple Aliphatic Nucleophiles to Hydroxyaldehydes
- Source :
- ACS Catalysis, Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, ACS Catalysis, American Chemical Society, 2018, 8 (9), pp.8804-8809. ⟨10.1021/acscatal.8b02486⟩, ACS Catalysis, 2018, 8 (9), pp.8804-8809. ⟨10.1021/acscatal.8b02486⟩, Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC, instname
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- American Chemical Society, 2018.
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Abstract
- Asymmetric aldol addition of simple aldehydes and ketones to electrophiles is a cornerstone reaction for the synthesis of unusual sugars and chiral building blocks. We investigated D-fructose-6-phosphate aldolase from E. coli (FSA) D6X variants as catalysts for the aldol additions of linear and cyclic non-functionalized aliphatic ketones or ethanal as nucleophiles to non-phosphorylated hydroxyaldehydes. Thus, addition of propanone, cyclobutanone, cyclopentanone or ethanal to 3-hydroxypropanal or (S)- or (R)-3-hydroxybutanal catalyzed by FSA D6H and D6Q variants furnished rare deoxysugars in 8-77% isolated yields with high stereoselectivity (97:3 dr and >95% ee). © 2018 American Chemical Society.<br />This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 635595 (CarbaZymes), the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO), the Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) (grant CTQ2015-63563-R to P.C. and CTQ2015-64436-P to T.P.), COST action CM1303 Systems Biocatalysis and funding from the Auvergne council.
- Subjects :
- biocatalysis
Aldolases
010402 general chemistry
Cyclopentanone
deoxysugars
01 natural sciences
Enzyme engineering
Catalysis
chemistry.chemical_compound
Aldol reaction
Nucleophile
Asymmetric catalysis
Organic chemistry
[CHIM]Chemical Sciences
aldol reaction
Deoxysugars
carbon−carbon bond formation
Carbon−carbon bond formation
biology
010405 organic chemistry
Chemistry
Aldolase A
Enantioselective synthesis
asymmetric catalysis
General Chemistry
Carbon-Carbon bond formation
0104 chemical sciences
enzyme engineering
Biocatalysis
aldolases
Electrophile
biology.protein
Stereoselectivity
Research Article
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 21555435
- Volume :
- 8
- Issue :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- ACS Catalysis
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4ed139a1723dac8151b6694d55cdaa04