Organometallic Mn (I) complexes in asymmetric catalytic (transfer) hydrogenation and related transformations

D Fu, Z Wang, Q Liu, SJ Prettyman, GA Solan… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Direct asymmetric hydrogenation (AH) and asymmetric transfer hydrogenation (ATH) are
among the most efficient approaches to produce chiral building blocks. Recently, these …

Pnictogen‐Bonding Enzymes

G Renno, D Chen, QX Zhang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The objective of this study was to create artificial enzymes that capitalize on pnictogen
bonding, a σ‐hole interaction that is essentially absent in biocatalysis. For this purpose …

[HTML][HTML] Enzyme engineering for biocatalysis

C Paul, U Hanefeld, F Hollmann, G Qu, B Yuan… - Molecular Catalysis, 2024 - Elsevier
Contemporary Biocatalysis heavily relies on enzyme engineering as natural enzymes
frequently lack the requisite attributes for effective organic synthesis. The inherent limitations …

Design and Evolution of an Artificial Friedel–Crafts Alkylation Enzyme Featuring an Organoboronic Acid Residue

SB Mou, KY Chen, T Kunthic… - Journal of the American …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Creating artificial enzymes by the genetic incorporation of noncanonical amino acids with
catalytic side chains would expand the enzyme chemistries that have not been discovered in …