Shortening synthetic routes to small molecule active pharmaceutical ingredients employing biocatalytic methods

S Simić, E Zukić, L Schmermund, K Faber… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Biocatalysis, using enzymes for organic synthesis, has emerged as powerful tool for the
synthesis of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). The first industrial biocatalytic …

Reactive crystallization: a review

MA McDonald, H Salami, PR Harris… - Reaction Chemistry & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Reactive crystallization is not new, but there has been recent growth in its use as a means of
improving performance and sustainability of industrial processes. This review examines …

Merging enzymatic and synthetic chemistry with computational synthesis planning

I Levin, M Liu, CA Voigt, CW Coley - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Synthesis planning programs trained on chemical reaction data can design efficient routes
to new molecules of interest, but are limited in their ability to leverage rare chemical …

Advances in biocatalytic and chemoenzymatic synthesis of nucleoside analogues

SC Cosgrove, GJ Miller - Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Nucleoside analogues represent a cornerstone of achievement in drug
discovery, rising to prominence particularly in the fields of antiviral and anticancer discovery …

Intriguing antiviral modified nucleosides: a retrospective view into the future treatment of COVID-19

E Ami, H Ohrui - ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
Great pioneers of nucleic acid chemistry had elucidated nucleic acid functions and
structures and developed various antiviral modified nucleoside drugs. It is possible in theory …

Structure, Synthesis and Inhibition Mechanism of Nucleoside Analogues as HIV‐1 Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors (NRTIs)

Y Yoshida, M Honma, Y Kimura, H Abe - ChemMedChem, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is caused by infection with the human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Although treatments against HIV infection are available, AIDS …

Chemical and chemoenzymatic stereoselective synthesis of β-nucleosides and their analogues

HJ Wang, YY Zhong, YC **ao, FE Chen - Organic Chemistry Frontiers, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
β-Nucleosides are fundamental building blocks of biological systems and are widely used
as therapeutic agents for the treatment of cancer and viral infections, among others. In the …

An enantioselective and modular platform for C4ʹ-modified nucleoside analogue synthesis enabled by intramolecular trans-acetalizations

T Nuligonda, G Kumar, JW Wang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
C4ʹ-modified nucleoside analogues continue to attract global attention for their use in
antiviral drug development and oligonucleotide-based therapeutics. However, current …

Photoredox-Catalyzed Site-Selective Intermolecular C(sp3)–H Alkylation of Tetrahydrofurfuryl Alcohol Derivatives

R Abe, K Nagao, T Seki, D Hata, Y Sasaki… - Organic …, 2025 - ACS Publications
4′-Selective alkylation of nucleosides has been recognized as one of the ideal and
straightforward approaches to chemically modified nucleosides, but such a transformation …

Chiral Coordination Polymers from a New 2-Deoxy-d-ribose Derivative Linker: Syntheses, Structures, and Fe3+ Fluorescent Probe Functions

TS He, YL Lan, ZY Li, LN Zhu, XZ Li - Crystal Growth & Design, 2021 - ACS Publications
Research on coordination polymers (CPs) using 2-deoxy-d-ribose derivatives as ligands
has not been documented to the best of our knowledge. Herein, the new ligand L (1, 3, 4 …