Asymmetric biomimetic transamination is a highly attractive method for synthesis of chemically and biologically important chiral amino acids and chiral amines. Development of chiral pyridoxamines/pyridoxals is the key for the reaction. New axially chiral biaryl pyridoxamines based on H4-naphathene skeleton have been developed. The pyridoxamines display good enantioselectivity and high catalytic activity
A new type of chiral pyridoxamines bearing an adjacent chiral stereocenter has been developed via multi-step synthesis. The pyridoxamines displayed catalytic activity in asymmetric transamination of α-keto acids to give a variety of optically active amino acids in 27–78% yields with 34–62% ee’s under very mildconditions. This work provides a synthetic strategy to construct newchiral pyridoxamines
novel chiral pyridoxamines 3a–g containing a sidechain has been developed. The pyridoxamines displayed catalytic activity and promising enantioselectivity in biomimetic asymmetric transamination of α-keto acids, to give various α-amino acids in 47–90% yields with up to 87% ee’s under very mild conditions. An interesting effect of the sidechain on enantioselectivity was observed in the reaction.
transamination is catalyzed by pyridoxal/pyridoxamine, and it involves remarkable cooperativecatalysis of a Lys residue in the transaminase. Inspired by transaminases, we developed a class of axially chiral pyridoxamines 11 bearing a lateral amine arm. The pyridoxamines exhibited high catalytic activity and excellent enantioselectivity in asymmetric transamination of α-keto acids, to give various α-amino