Shortening synthetic routes to small molecule active pharmaceutical ingredients employing biocatalytic methods

S Simić, E Zukić, L Schmermund, K Faber… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Biocatalysis, using enzymes for organic synthesis, has emerged as powerful tool for the
synthesis of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). The first industrial biocatalytic …

[HTML][HTML] Biocatalysis making waves in organic chemistry

U Hanefeld, F Hollmann, CE Paul - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Biocatalysis has an enormous impact on chemical synthesis. The waves in which
biocatalysis has developed, and in doing so changed our perception of what organic …

Multifunctional biocatalyst for conjugate reduction and reductive amination

TW Thorpe, JR Marshall, V Harawa, RE Ruscoe… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Chiral amine diastereomers are ubiquitous in pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals, yet their
preparation often relies on low-efficiency multi-step synthesis. These valuable compounds …

Screening and characterization of a diverse panel of metagenomic imine reductases for biocatalytic reductive amination

JR Marshall, P Yao, SL Montgomery, JD Finnigan… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Finding faster and simpler ways to screen protein sequence space to enable the
identification of new biocatalysts for asymmetric synthesis remains both a challenge and a …

Biocatalytic reductive aminations with NAD (P) H-dependent enzymes: enzyme discovery, engineering and synthetic applications

B Yuan, D Yang, G Qu, NJ Turner, Z Sun - Chemical Society Reviews, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Chiral amines are pivotal building blocks for the pharmaceutical industry. Asymmetric
reductive amination is one of the most efficient and atom economic methodologies for the …

Machine-directed evolution of an imine reductase for activity and stereoselectivity

EJ Ma, E Siirola, C Moore, A Kummer, M Stoeckli… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Biocatalysis is an effective tool to access chiral molecules that are otherwise hard to
synthesize or purify. Time-efficient processes are needed to develop enzymes that …

Discovery of an imine reductase for reductive amination of carbonyl compounds with sterically challenging amines

FF Chen, XF He, XX Zhu, Z Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The synthesis of structurally diverse amines is of fundamental significance in the
pharmaceutical industry due to the ubiquitous presence of amine motifs in biologically active …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging technologies for biocatalysis in the pharmaceutical industry

RD Lewis, SP France, CA Martinez - ACS Catalysis, 2023 - ACS Publications
Biocatalysis is a key technology in the pharmaceutical industry as it can provide efficient and
sustainable catalytic routes toward active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). The …

[HTML][HTML] Reductive aminations by imine reductases: from milligrams to tons

AK Gilio, TW Thorpe, N Turner, G Grogan - Chemical Science, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The synthesis of secondary and tertiary amines through the reductive amination of carbonyl
compounds is one of the most significant reactions in synthetic chemistry. Asymmetric …

Engineered imine reductase for larotrectinib intermediate manufacture

Q Chen, BB Li, L Zhang, XR Chen, XX Zhu… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Imine reductases (IREDs) are increasingly identified and characterized for the reduction of
imines and reductive amination of ketones. However, their practical application is still limited …