[HTML][HTML] Biocatalysis

EL Bell, W Finnigan, SP France, AP Green… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Biocatalysis has become an important aspect of modern organic synthesis, both in
academia and across the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Its success has been …

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 …

The crucial role of methodology development in directed evolution of selective enzymes

G Qu, A Li, CG Acevedo‐Rocha, Z Sun… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Directed evolution of stereo‐, regio‐, and chemoselective enzymes constitutes a unique way
to generate biocatalysts for synthetically interesting transformations in organic chemistry and …

Artificial metalloenzymes: reaction scope and optimization strategies

F Schwizer, Y Okamoto, T Heinisch, Y Gu… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The incorporation of a synthetic, catalytically competent metallocofactor into a protein
scaffold to generate an artificial metalloenzyme (ArM) has been explored since the late …

Scalable biocatalytic C–H oxyfunctionalization reactions

S Chakrabarty, Y Wang, JC Perkins… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Catalytic C–H oxyfunctionalization reactions have garnered significant attention in recent
years with their ability to streamline synthetic routes toward complex molecules …

A tautomeric ligand enables directed C‒H hydroxylation with molecular oxygen

Z Li, Z Wang, N Chekshin, S Qian, JX Qiao, PT Cheng… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Hydroxylation of aryl carbon–hydrogen bonds with transition metal catalysts has proven
challenging when oxygen is used as the oxidant. Here, we report a palladium complex …

P450 BM3 (CYP102A1): connecting the dots

CJC Whitehouse, SG Bell, LL Wong - Chemical Society Reviews, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
P450BM3 (CYP102A1), a fatty acid hydroxylase from Bacillus megaterium, has been
extensively studied over a period of almost forty years. The enzyme has been redesigned to …

Iron-and cobalt-catalyzed C (sp 3)–H bond functionalization reactions and their application in organic synthesis

Y Liu, T You, HX Wang, Z Tang, CY Zhou… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Direct C–H bond functionalization catalyzed by non-precious transition metals is an
attractive strategy in synthetic chemistry. Compared with the precious metals rhodium …

Cytochromes P450 as promising catalysts for biotechnological application: chances and limitations

R Bernhardt, VB Urlacher - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2014 - Springer
Cytochromes P450 (CYPs) belong to the superfamily of heme b containing
monooxygenases with currently more than 21,000 members. These enzymes accept a vast …

Cytochrome P450 monooxygenases: an update on perspectives for synthetic application

VB Urlacher, M Girhard - Trends in biotechnology, 2012 - cell.com
Cytochrome P450 monooxygenases (P450s) are versatile biocatalysts that catalyze the
regio-and stereospecic oxidation of non-activated hydrocarbons under mild conditions …