99636-38-1Relevant articles and documents
Parallel interconnected kinetic asymmetric transformation (PIKAT) with an immobilized ω-transaminase in neat organic solvent
B?hmer, Wesley,Koenekoop, Lucien,Mutti, Francesco G.,Simon, Timothée
, (2020/05/25)
Comprising approximately 40% of the commercially available optically active drugs, α-chiral amines are pivotal for pharmaceutical manufacture. In this context, the enzymatic asymmetric amination of ketones represents a more sustainable alternative than traditional chemical procedures for chiral amine synthesis. Notable advantages are higher atom-economy and selectivity, shorter synthesis routes, milder reaction conditions and the elimination of toxic catalysts. A parallel interconnected kinetic asymmetric transformation (PIKAT) is a cascade in which one or two enzymes use the same cofactor to convert two reagents into more useful products. Herein, we describe a PIKAT catalyzed by an immobilized ω-transaminase (ωTA) in neat toluene, which concurrently combines an asymmetric transamination of a ketone with an anti-parallel kinetic resolution of an amine racemate. The applicability of the PIKAT was tested on a set of prochiral ketones and racemic α-chiral amines in a 1:2 molar ratio, which yielded elevated conversions (up to >99%) and enantiomeric excess (ee, up to >99%) for the desired products. The progress of the conversion and ee was also monitored in a selected case. This is the first report of a PIKAT using an immobilized ωTA in a non-aqueous environment.
ω-Transaminase-catalyzed kinetic resolution of chiral amines using l-threonine as an amino acceptor precursor
Malik, M. Shaheer,Park, Eul-Soo,Shin, Jong-Shik
supporting information; experimental part, p. 2137 - 2140 (2012/09/25)
Kinetic resolution of chiral amines using l-threonine as a cosubstrate was demonstrated by a biocatalytic strategy in which (S)-selective ω-transaminase (ω-TA) was coupled with threonine deaminase (TD), eliminating the need to use an expensive keto acid as an amino acceptor. The coupled enzyme reaction enabled simultaneous production of enantiopure (R)-amine and l-homoalanine which are pharmaceutically important building blocks. To extend the versatility of this strategy to production of both enantiomers of chiral amines, (R)-selective ω-TA coupled with TD was employed to produce (S)-amine.
Deracemisation of α-chiral primary amines by a one-pot, two-step cascade reaction catalysed by ω-transaminases
Koszelewski, Dominik,Clay, Dorina,Rozzell, David,Kroutil, Wolfgang
experimental part, p. 2289 - 2292 (2009/08/09)
Racemic a-chiral primary amines were deracemised to optically pure amines in up to >99 % conversion and >99 % ee within 48 h. The deracemisation was a result of a stereoinver- sion of one amine enantiomer; the formal stereoinversion was achieved by a one-pot, two-step procedure: in the first step, kinetic resolution of the chiral racemic amine was performed by employing a -transaminase to yield an intermediate ketone and the remaining optically pure amine; in the second step, the ketone intermediate was stereoselectively transformed into the amine by employing alanine as the amine donor and a -transaminase displaying opposite stereopref- erence than the -transaminase in the first step. In the second step, lactate dehydrogenase was used to remove the side product pyruvate to shift the unfavourable reaction equilibrium to the product side. Depending on the order of the en- antiocomplementary enzymes employed in the cascade, the (R), as well as the (S), enantiomer was accessible.