Alcohol dehydrogenases as catalysts in organic synthesis

AS de Miranda, CDF Milagre, F Hollmann - Frontiers in Catalysis, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Alcohol dehydrogenases (ADHs) have become important catalysts for stereoselective
oxidation and reduction reactions of alcohols, aldehydes and ketones. The aim of this …

Enzymatic strategies for asymmetric synthesis

M Hall - RSC Chemical Biology, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Enzymes, at the turn of the 21st century, are gaining a momentum. Especially in the field of
synthetic organic chemistry, a broad variety of biocatalysts are being applied in an …

Accessing non-natural reactivity by irradiating nicotinamide-dependent enzymes with light

MA Emmanuel, NR Greenberg, DG Oblinsky, TK Hyster - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Enzymes are ideal for use in asymmetric catalysis by the chemical industry, because their
chemical compositions can be tailored to a specific substrate and selectivity pattern while …

Artificial Multienzyme Scaffolds: Pursuing in Vitro Substrate Channeling with an Overview of Current Progress

GA Ellis, WP Klein, G Lasarte-Aragones, M Thakur… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Artificial multienzyme scaffolds are being developed for in vitro cascaded biocatalytic activity
and, in particular, accessing substrate channeling. This review covers progress in this field …

Direct alkylation of amines with primary and secondary alcohols through biocatalytic hydrogen borrowing

SL Montgomery, J Mangas‐Sanchez… - Angewandte …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The reductive aminase from Aspergillus oryzae (AspRedAm) was combined with a single
alcohol dehydrogenase (either metagenomic ADH‐150, an ADH from Sphingobium …

One-Pot Sequential Two-Step Photo-Biocatalytic Deracemization of sec-Alcohols Combining Photocatalytic Oxidation and Bioreduction

A Rudzka, N Antos, T Reiter, W Kroutil… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Chiral alcohols are versatile building blocks and are of particular interest in the asymmetric
synthesis of nonracemic active pharmaceutical ingredients, agrochemicals, fragrances …

[HTML][HTML] Efficient reductive desymmetrization of bulky 1, 3-cyclodiketones enabled by structure-guided directed evolution of a carbonyl reductase

X Chen, H Zhang, MA Maria-Solano, W Liu, J Li… - Nature Catalysis, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract Reductive desymmetrization of 2, 2-disubstituted prochiral 1, 3-cyclodiketones to 2,
2-disubstituted-3-hydroxycycloketones is a highly desired transformation for the construction …

[HTML][HTML] Impact and relevance of alcohol dehydrogenase enantioselectivities on biotechnological applications

AA Koesoema, DM Standley, T Senda… - Applied microbiology and …, 2020 - Springer
Alcohol dehydrogenases (ADHs) catalyze the reversible reduction of a carbonyl group to its
corresponding alcohol. ADHs are widely employed for organic synthesis due to their lack of …

The Synthesis of Chiral γ‐Lactones by Merging Decatungstate Photocatalysis with Biocatalysis

FF Özgen, A Jorea, L Capaldo, R Kourist… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The implementation of light‐driven catalytic processes in biocatalysis opens a golden
window of opportunities. We hereby report the merging of photocatalytic C− C bond …

[HTML][HTML] Fungal indole alkaloid biogenesis through evolution of a bifunctional reductase/Diels–Alderase

Q Dan, SA Newmister, KR Klas, AE Fraley… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Prenylated indole alkaloids such as the calmodulin-inhibitory malbrancheamides and
anthelmintic paraherquamides possess great structural diversity and pharmaceutical utility …