Application of ω-Transaminases in the Pharmaceutical Industry

SA Kelly, S Pohle, S Wharry, S Mix, CCR Allen… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Chiral amines are valuable building blocks for the pharmaceutical industry. ω-TAms have
emerged as an exciting option for their synthesis, offering a potential “green alternative” to …

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 …

Biocatalysis for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical intermediates

H Sun, H Zhang, EL Ang, H Zhao - Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry, 2018 - Elsevier
Biocatalysis has been increasingly used for pharmaceutical synthesis in an effort to make
manufacturing processes greener and more sustainable. Biocatalysts that possess excellent …

Oxidoreductase-catalyzed synthesis of chiral amines

MD Patil, G Grogan, A Bommarius, H Yun - Acs Catalysis, 2018 - ACS Publications
Chiral amines are valuable constituents of many important pharmaceutical compounds and
their intermediates. It is estimated that∼ 40%–45% of small molecule pharmaceuticals …

The industrial age of biocatalytic transamination

M Fuchs, JE Farnberger… - European Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
During the last decade the use of ω‐transaminases has been identified as a very powerful
method for the preparation of optically pure amines from the corresponding ketones. Their …

Amine transaminases in chiral amines synthesis: recent advances and challenges

EE Ferrandi, D Monti - World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2018 - Springer
Transaminases, which catalyze the stereoselective transfer of an amino group between an
amino donor and a prochiral ketone substrate, are interesting biocatalytic tools for the …

From racemic alcohols to enantiopure amines: Ru-catalyzed diastereoselective amination

NJ Oldenhuis, VM Dong, Z Guan - Journal of the American …, 2014 - ACS Publications
A commercially available ruthenium (II) PNP-type pincer catalyst (Ru-Macho) promotes the
formation of α-chiral tert-butanesulfinylamines from racemic secondary alcohols and …

The challenge of using isopropylamine as an amine donor in transaminase catalysed reactions

P Kelefiotis-Stratidakis, T Tyrikos-Ergas… - Organic & Biomolecular …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Amine transaminases (ATAs) propose an appealing alternative to transition metal catalysts
as they can provide chiral amines of high purity from pro-chiral compounds by asymmetric …

Direct asymmetric reductive amination of alkyl (hetero) aryl ketones by an engineered amine dehydrogenase

W Kong, Y Liu, C Huang, L Zhou, J Gao… - Angewandte …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The direct asymmetric reductive amination of heteroaryl ketones has been a long‐standing
synthetic challenge. Here we report the engineering of an amine dehydrogenase (AmDH) …

Synthesizing chiral drug intermediates by biocatalysis

W Jiang, B Fang - Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 2020 - Springer
The chiral feature is a critical factor for the efficacy and safety of many therapeutic agents. At
present, about 57% of marketed drugs are chiral drugs and about 99% of purified natural …