6628-00-8Relevant articles and documents
Integrated Electro-Biocatalysis for Amine Alkylation with Alcohols
Pe?afiel, Itziar,Dryfe, Robert A. W.,Turner, Nicholas J.,Greaney, Michael F.
, p. 864 - 867 (2021/01/21)
The integration of electro and bio-catalysis offers new ways of making molecules under very mild, environmentally benign conditions. We show that TEMPO mediated electro-catalytic oxidation of alcohols can be adapted to work in aqueous buffers, with minimal organic co-solvent, enabling integration with biocatalytic reductive amination using the AdRedAm enzyme. The combined process offers a new approach to amine alkylation with native alcohols, a key bond formation in the chemical economy that is currently achieved via precious metal-catalyzed hydrogen-borrowing technologies. The electrobio transformation is effective for primary and secondary alcohols undergoing coupling with allyl, propargyl, benzyl, and cyclopropyl amines, and has been adapted for use with solid-supported AdRedAm for ease of operation.
A Mechanism for Reductive Amination Catalyzed by Fungal Reductive Aminases
Sharma, Mahima,Mangas-Sanchez, Juan,France, Scott P.,Aleku, Godwin A.,Montgomery, Sarah L.,Ramsden, Jeremy I.,Turner, Nicholas J.,Grogan, Gideon
, p. 11534 - 11541 (2018/11/23)
Reductive aminases (RedAms) catalyze the asymmetric reductive amination of ketones with primary amines to give secondary amine products. RedAms have great potential for the synthesis of bioactive chiral amines; however, insights into their mechanism are currently limited. Comparative studies on reductive amination of cyclohexanone with allylamine in the presence of RedAms, imine reductases (IREDs), or NaBH3CN support the distinctive activity of RedAms in catalyzing both imine formation and reduction in the reaction. Structures of AtRedAm from Aspergillus terreus, in complex with NADPH and ketone and amine substrates, along with kinetic analysis of active-site mutants, reveal modes of substrate binding, the basis for the specificity of RedAms for reduction of imines over ketones, and the importance of domain flexibility in bringing the reactive participants together for the reaction. This information is used to propose a mechanism for their action and also to expand the substrate specificity of RedAms using protein engineering.
Direct Alkylation of Amines with Primary and Secondary Alcohols through Biocatalytic Hydrogen Borrowing
Montgomery, Sarah L.,Mangas-Sanchez, Juan,Thompson, Matthew P.,Aleku, Godwin A.,Dominguez, Beatriz,Turner, Nicholas J.
supporting information, p. 10491 - 10494 (2017/08/22)
The reductive aminase from Aspergillus oryzae (AspRedAm) was combined with a single alcohol dehydrogenase (either metagenomic ADH-150, an ADH from Sphingobium yanoikuyae (SyADH), or a variant of the ADH from Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus (TeSADH W110A)) in a redox-neutral cascade for the biocatalytic alkylation of amines using primary and secondary alcohols. Aliphatic and aromatic secondary amines were obtained in up to 99 % conversion, as well as chiral amines directly from the racemic alcohol precursors in up to >97 % ee, releasing water as the only byproduct.