Enzymatic kinetics enantioselectivity

On that basis, crystallization is often used in combination with other enantiose-lective techniques, such as enantioselective synthesis, enzymatic kinetic resolution or simulated moving bed (SMB) chromatography [10, 11]. In general, when referring to crystallization techniques, the aim is to obtain an enantiomeric enrichment in the crystallized solid. However, the possibility of producing an enrichment in the mother liquors [12, 13], even if this is not a general phenomenon [14], must be taken into account. 

A combination of an enzymatic kinetic resolution and an intramolecular Diels-Alder has recently been described by Kita and coworkers [23]. In the first step of this domino process, the racemic alcohols ( )-8-55 are esterified in the presence of a Candida antarctica lipase (CALB) by using the functionalized alkenyl ester 8-56 to give (R)-8-57, which in the subsequent Diels-Alder reaction led to 8-58 in high enantioselectivity of 95 and 91 % ee, respectively and 81 % yield (Scheme 8.15). In-... 

Ketorolac 132, a nonstereoidal anti-inflammatory drug with cyclooxygenase (COX) inhibitory activity, was marketed as a racemic mixture. It is now well established that (V)-ketorolac is the active enantiomer <1999MI382>. Therefore, efforts were devoted to the selective synthesis of this active stereomer, either by enzymatic kinetic resolution <2001TA1865> or by enantioselective synthesis <2005AGE609>. 

In a succeeding publication, the same authors reported on an enantiose-lective approach to diquinane enones 6 and ent-6 by combining the above-described synthesis with an enzymatic kinetic resolution (Scheme 4) [12]. After lipase-catalyzed enantioselective transesterification of diol rac-12. 

Alternative synthetic approaches include enantioselective addition of the organometallic reagent to quinoline in the first step of the synthesis [16], the resolution of the racemic amines resulting from simple protonation of anions 1 (Scheme 2.1.5.1, Method C) by diastereomeric salts formation [17] or by enzymatic kinetic resolution [18], and the iridium-catalyzed enantioselective hydrogenation of 2-substituted quinolines [19]. All these methodologies would avoid the need for diastereomer separation later on, and give direct access to enantio-enriched QUINAPHOS derivatives bearing achiral or tropoisomeric diols. Current work in our laboratories is directed to the evaluation of these methods. 

Finally, Sanfilippo and coworkers describe the enzymatic kinetic resolution of atropisomeric ( )-3,3 -bis(hydroxymethyl)-2,2 -bipyridine N,N-dioxide by enantioselective esterifcation in an unusual medium of 2-propanol/vinyl acetate (20 80) [139]. Lipase from Mucor miehei (immobilized lipase preparation, Lipozyme ) was found to give good enantioselectivity with an (aS)-enantiopreference in the axial recognition and allowed efficient preparation of both enantioforms with > 98%. Despite the fact that the propanol reacts with the acyl donor, this did not diminish its positive effects on the solubility of the bipyridyl substrate. 

The enantioselective hydrolysis of the racemic 2-acetoxy-l-silacyclohexane rac-78 represents a further example of an enzymatic kinetic racemate resolution (Scheme 15). Hydrolysis of this compound in the presence of porcine liver esterase (PLE E.C. 3.1.1.1) yielded the optically active 1-silacyclohexan-2-ol (S)-43 which was isolated with an enantiomeric purity of 93% ee7. Similar results were obtained when using a crude lipase preparation from Candida cylindracea (CCL E.C. 3.1.1.3) as the biocatalyst... 

Enzymatic kinetic resolutions via enantioselective esterifications have been successfully used for the preparation of optically active (hydroxymethyl)silanes, with the silicon atom... 

E values above 100 are very inaccurate due to the logarithmic function, so that usually such high enantioselectivities are stated as E > 100. In these calculations the E value increases with increasing enantioselectivity. For the enzymatic kinetic resolutions, only E values greater than 20 indicate a potentially useful application in organic synthesis. 

An example for the application of enzymatic kinetic resolutions with high E values in natural product synthesis is the chemoenzymatic synthesis of the northern half of epothilones (also see Sect. 4.1). Various lipases and esterases could be found with outstanding enantioselectivity (up to >100) among these were lipase B from Candida antarctica, a lipase from Burkholderia cepacia, a lipase from Pseudomonas sp., and a lipase from Streptomyces diastochromogenes, all affording the desired (S)-configurated alcohol with >99% enantiomeric excess (Fig. 4) [65],... 

The influence of different ILs, based on N, N dialkyUmidazolium cations as reaction media, on the enantioselectivity of commercially available immobilized lipase from CALB for the kinetic resolution of 1-phenylethanol was studied. Further, the performance of the enzymatic kinetic 1-phenylethanol resolution by CALB in the system [bmim][PF6]/SC-C02 was studied. 

Another factor to consider is that the site of enzyme-catalyzed hydrolysis would not be adjacent to the stereocenter but rather /> to it. While there are many examples where reaction enantioselectivity is attenuated by the distance of the stereo-genic carbon from the enzymatic action site [31], resolution of centers up to five bonds distant from the site of enzymatic action is still possible [32]. We hoped that we would be able to reproduce the example of the enzymatic kinetic resolution of 9 but with a thioester, inasmuch as the resolution of 9 had been excellent and the resolved center was located two bonds from the ester. 

The N,N -dioxide 562 gave a slightly smaller barrier (115.2 kJ mol at 56.9 °C) than 561b (05JOC2930). 562 was resolved on Chiralpak AD column and the enantiomers have been employed in enantioselective fluorescence analysis of the enzymatic kinetic resolution of frflns-l,2-dia-minocyclohexane (050L4045). 

While most of the syntheses of hyacinthacines are based on the modification and elaboration of precursors from the chiral pool, less effort has been directed toward the construction of the pyrrolizidine skeleton using non-natural precursors. This chapter summarizes racemic as well as enantioselective total synthesis of hyacinthacines reported to date, which start from nonchiral pool sources. In this context, biocatalysis constitutes the most widely used alternative to the chiral pool approach. Enzymatic kinetic resolution using lipases but also aldolase-mediated reactions have been successfully employed to provide precursors that were later elaborated toward hyacinthacines. Synthetic chiral auxiliaries have also been used successfully in this context. 

N on-racemic allylic hydroxy phosphonates are usually produced by enzymatic kinetic resolution [54] or enantioselective catalysis [55]. They can be now produced by CM of allylic hydroxy phosphonates 62 with Grubbs catalyst 3 (Scheme 26) [56]. CM compounds 63 are the main products with respect to the self-metathesis product 64. 

Hydantoinases belong to the E.C.3.5.2 group of cyclic amidases, which catalyze the hydrolysis of hydantoins [4,54]. As synthetic hydantoins are readily accessible by a variety of chemical syntheses, including Strecker reactions, enantioselective hydantoinase-catalyzed hydrolysis offers an attractive and general route to chiral amino acid derivatives. Moreover, hydantoins are easily racemized chemically or enzymatically by appropriate racemases, so that dynamic kinetic resolution with potential 100% conversion and complete enantioselectivity is theoretically possible. Indeed, a number of such cases using WT hydantoinases have been reported [54]. However, if asymmetric induction is poor or ifinversion ofenantioselectivity is desired, directed evolution can come to the rescue. Such a case has been reported, specifically in the production of i-methionine in a whole-cell system ( . coli) (Figure 2.13) [55]. 

The change of the anion results in alteration of enzymatic activity and also allows improvement in the enantioselectivity from an unacceptable level (1.1) to a synthetically useful value of 24. The cationic component of the IL also affects the activity and selectivity of the biocatalyst. Scheme 5.16 presents the study on the kinetic resolution of adrenaline-type aminoethanol in ILs [64]. 

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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