Chemo-enzymatic dynamic

D. (2007) Chemo-enzymatic dynamic kinetic resolution of amino acid thioesters. Adv. Synth. Catal, 349 (8-9), 1345-1348. 

Servi, S., Viani, F., and Tessaro, D. (2012) Naphthyl-L-a-amino acids via chemo-enzymatic dynamic kinetic resolution. Tetrahedron Asymmetry, 23 (13), 938-944. 

Chemo-enzymatic dynamic resolution of amino acids. 

Dynamic kinetic resolution (DKR) is a process in which the resolution process is coupled with in situ racemization of unreacted substrate. This has been shown to be a potential and feasible method to produce 100 % theoretical yield. We have developed a chemo-enzymatic DKR to obtain higher desired yield for (5)-ibuprofen. The combined base catalyst with lipase has resulted in high conversion and excellent ee of the product. 

Azerad, R., and Buisson, D. 2000. Dynamic resolution and stereoinversion of secondary alcohols by chemo enzymatic processes. Curr. Op. Biotechnol., 11(6), 565-571. 

The resulting dynamic aminonitrile systems were first subjected to lipase mediated resolution processes at room temperature. A-Methy] acetamide was observed as a major product from the lipase amidation resolution. In this case, free methylamine A was generated during the dynamic transimination process and transformed by the lipase. To avoid this by-reaction, the enzymatic reaction was performed at 0 °C, and the formation of this amide was thus detected at less than 5% conversion. To circumvent potential coordination, and inhibition of the enzyme by free Zn(II) in solution [54], solid-state zinc bromide was employed as a heterogeneous catalyst for the double dynamic system at 0 °C. The lipase-catalyzed amidation resolution could thus be used successfully to evaluate /V-substituted a-aminonitrile substrates from double dynamic systems in one-pot reactions as shown in Fig. 7d. Proposedly, the heterogeneous catalyst interfered considerably less or not at all in the chemo-enzymatic reaction because the two processes are separated from each other. Moreover, the rate of the by-reaction was reduced due to strong chelation between the amine and zinc bromide in the heterogeneous system. 

The dynamic kinetic resolution (DKR) of secondary alcohols and amines (Scheme 11.11) is a prominent, industrially relevant, example of chemo-enzymatic chemistry in which a racemic mixture is converted into one enantiomer in essentially 100% yield and in high ee. This is in sharp contrast to enzyme-catalyzed kinetic resolutions that afford the desired end-product in a yield of at most 50%, while 50% of the starting material remains unreacted. In DKR processes, hydrolases are typically employed as the enantioselective acylation catalyst (which can be either R or S selective) while a concurrent racemization process racemizes the remaining substrate via an optically inactive intermediate. This ensures that all starting material is converted into the desired end-product. The importance of optically pure secondary alcohols and amines for the pharmaceutical industry triggered the development of a number of approaches that enable the racemization of sec-alcohols and amines via their corresponding ketones and imines, respectively [42],... 

After some early examples of bio-chemo combinations in the 1980s, there was then over a decade of silence , followed by clearly increasing interest from the mid-1990s in the field of dynamic kinetic resolution processes (i.e., chemocata-lyzed racemization combined with enantioselective enzymatic conversion, giving, in principle, 100% yield of an optically pure compound). 

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