Biocatalytic reduction reactions from a chemist's perspective

F Hollmann, DJ Opperman… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Reductions play a key role in organic synthesis, producing chiral products with new
functionalities. Enzymes can catalyse such reactions with exquisite stereo‐, regio‐and …

Catalytic deracemization reactions

M Huang, T Pan, X Jiang, S Luo - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Deracemization, which converts a racemate into its single enantiomer without separation of
the intermediate, has gained renewed interest in asymmetric synthesis with its inherent …

RetroBioCat as a computer-aided synthesis planning tool for biocatalytic reactions and cascades

W Finnigan, LJ Hepworth, SL Flitsch, NJ Turner - Nature catalysis, 2021 - nature.com
As the enzyme toolbox for biocatalysis has expanded, so has the potential for the
construction of powerful enzymatic cascades for efficient and selective synthesis of target …

Advances in one-pot chiral amine synthesis enabled by amine transaminase cascades: pushing the boundaries of complexity

S Mathew, D Renn, M Rueping - ACS Catalysis, 2023 - ACS Publications
Amine transaminases constitute an important class of enzymes for the synthesis of chiral
amines, which are commonly used as building blocks in pharmaceutical compounds and …

Asymmetric reductive amination of structurally diverse ketones with ammonia using a spectrum-extended amine dehydrogenase

DH Wang, Q Chen, SN Yin, XW Ding, YC Zheng… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Amine dehydrogenase-catalyzed reductive amination of prochiral ketones with ammonia is
a promising method for the synthesis of optically pure amines in the pharmaceutical and fine …

Amine dehydrogenases: Current status and potential value for chiral amine synthesis

J Liu, W Kong, J Bai, Y Li, L Dong, L Zhou, Y Liu, J Gao… - Chem Catalysis, 2022 - cell.com
Chiral amines are crucial precursors of various pharmaceutical drugs, fine chemicals, and
bioactive molecules. Amine dehydrogenases (AmDHs) have attracted increasing attention …

Light-driven redox deracemization of indolines and tetrahydroquinolines using a photocatalyst coupled with chiral phosphoric acid

Q Chen, Y Zhu, X Shi, R Huang, C Jiang, K Zhang… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The integration of oxidation and enantioselective reduction enables a redox deracemization
to directly access enantioenriched products from their corresponding racemates. However …

One-pot biocatalytic synthesis of nylon monomers from cyclohexanol using Escherichia coli-based concurrent cascade consortia

S Sarak, TP Khobragade, H Jeon, AD Pagar, P Giri… - Green …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
We developed a multienzyme biocatalytic cascade with high atom efficiency and a self-
sufficient redox network for the synthesis of nylon monomers without adding auxiliary …

Deracemisation processes employing organocatalysis and enzyme catalysis

C Aranda, G Oksdath‐Mansilla… - Advanced Synthesis …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Deracemisation methods have demonstrated their importance in the preparation of chiral
compounds in the last few years. In order to resolve a racemic mixture in a dynamic sense …

Structural insight into the substrate specificity of PLP fold type IV transaminases

EY Bezsudnova, VO Popov, KM Boyko - Applied microbiology and …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Pyridoxal-5′-phosphate-dependent transaminases of fold type IV (class IV) are
promising enzymes for (R)-selective amination of organic compounds. Transaminases of …