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 …

Enzymatic reductions for the chemist

F Hollmann, IWCE Arends, D Holtmann - Green Chemistry, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
When challenged by a difficult reduction reaction, a chemist should always also consider
biocatalysis in synthesis planning. The inherent selectivity of enzymes has been known for …

Recent advances in biotechnological applications of alcohol dehydrogenases

YG Zheng, HH Yin, DF Yu, X Chen, XL Tang… - Applied microbiology …, 2017 - Springer
Alcohol dehydrogenases (ADHs), which belong to the oxidoreductase superfamily, catalyze
the interconversion between alcohols and aldehydes or ketones with high stereoselectivity …

Recent progress in biocatalysis for asymmetric oxidation and reduction

T Matsuda, R Yamanaka, K Nakamura - Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 2009 - Elsevier
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Efficient boron− copper additions to aryl-substituted alkenes promoted by NHC− based catalysts. Enantioselective Cu-catalyzed hydroboration reactions

Y Lee, AH Hoveyda - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2009 - ACS Publications
A Cu-catalyzed method for efficient boron− copper addition processes involving acyclic and
cyclic disubstituted aryl olefins are reported. Reactions are promoted with 0.5− 5 mol% of a …

Recent applications of biocatalysis in develo** green chemistry for chemical synthesis at the industrial scale

N Ran, L Zhao, Z Chen, J Tao - Green Chemistry, 2008 - pubs.rsc.org
Application of the twelve principles of green chemistry can deliver higher efficiency and
reduce the environmental burden during chemical synthesis. As a result of recent advances …

Iron-catalyzed cross-coupling of unactivated secondary alkyl thio ethers and sulfones with aryl Grignard reagents

SE Denmark, AJ Cresswell - The Journal of organic chemistry, 2013 - ACS Publications
The first systematic investigation of unactivated aliphatic sulfur compounds as electrophiles
in transition-metal-catalyzed cross-coupling are described. Initial studies focused on …

Asymmetric Reduction and Oxidation of Aromatic Ketones and Alcohols Using W110A Secondary Alcohol Dehydrogenase from Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus

Musa, KI Ziegelmann-Fjeld, C Vieille… - The Journal of …, 2007 - ACS Publications
An enantioselective asymmetric reduction of phenyl ring-containing prochiral ketones to
yield the corresponding optically active secondary alcohols was achieved with W110A …

Co‐immobilized Whole Cells with ω‐Transaminase and Ketoreductase Activities for Continuous‐Flow Cascade Reactions

L Nagy‐Győr, E Abaházi, V Bódai, P Sátorhelyi… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
An improved sol–gel process involving the use of hollow silica microspheres as a supporting
additive was applied for the co‐immobilization of whole cells of Escherichia coli with …

Straightforward synthesis of enantiopure 2, 3-dihydrobenzofurans by a sequential stereoselective biotransformation and chemical intramolecular cyclization

J Mangas-Sanchez, E Busto, V Gotor-Fernandez… - Organic …, 2010 - ACS Publications
A new family of optically active 2, 3-dihydrobenzofurans has been prepared by a simple
chemoenzymatic asymmetric strategy. This synthetic approach is based on the combination …