Pd(OAc)2/phosphonium tetrafluoroborates efficiently catalyzed Fukuyama coupling reaction with p-tolyl thioesters and 3-ethoxy-3-oxopropylzinc bromide which provide γ-oxo carboxylicesters under mild conditions. Pd(OAc)2/PCy3·HBF4 is the most effective catalyst and provides a direct method for synthesizing functionalized γ-oxo esters with high efficiency from readily accessible carboxylicacids as starting materials
Nevarez, Danielle M.; Mengistu, Yemane A.; Nawarathne, Irosha N., Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2009, vol. 131, p. 5994 - 6002
作者:Nevarez, Danielle M.、Mengistu, Yemane A.、Nawarathne, Irosha N.、Walker, Kevin D.
DOI:——
日期:——
Organomanganese(II) Reagents; X<sup>1</sup>. A Convenient Preparation of Various Acetoxyketones, Keto-nitriles, Keto-esters, Keto-acids, Diketones, and Heterocyclic Ketones (Acylheterocycles) via Acylation of Organomanganese(II) Reagents
作者:G. Friour、G. Cahiez、J. F. Normant
DOI:10.1055/s-1985-31101
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Point Mutations (Q19P and N23K) Increase the Operational Solubility of a 2α-<i>O</i>-Benzoyltransferase that Conveys Various Acyl Groups from CoA to a Taxane Acceptor
作者:Irosha N. Nawarathne、Kevin D. Walker
DOI:10.1021/np900524d
日期:2010.2.26
Two site-directed Mutations within the wild-type 2-O-benzoyltransferase (tbt) cDNA, from Taxus cuspidata plants, yielded air encoded protein containing replacement amino acids at Q19P and N23K that trial) to a solvent-exposed loop region. The likely significant changes in the biophysical properties invoked by these mutations Caused the overexpressed, modified TBT (mTBT) to partition into the Soluble enzyme fraction about 5-fold greater than the wild-type enzyme. Sufficient protein could now be acquired to examine the scope of the substrate specificity of mTBT by incubation with 7,13-O,O-diacetyl-2-O-debenzoylbaceatin III that was mixed individually with various substituted benzoyls, alkanoyls, and (E)-butenoyl CoA donors. The mTBT catalyzed the conversion of each 7,13-O,O-diacetyl-2-O-debenzoylbaccatin III to several 7,13-O,O-diacetyl-2-O-acyl-2-O-debenzoylbaccatin III analogues. The relative catalytic efficiency of mTBT with the 7,13-O,O-diacetyl-2-O-debenzoyl surrogate Substrate and heterole carbonyl CoA substrates was slightly greater than with the natural aroyl substrate benzoyl CoA, While substituted benzoyl CoA thioesters were less productive. Short-chain hydrocarbon carbonyl and cyclohexanoyl CoA thioesters were also productive, where C-4 Substrates were transferred by mTBT with similar to 10- to 17-fold greater catalytic efficiency compared to the transfer of benzoyl. The described broad specificity of mTBT suggests (flat a plethora of 2-O-acyl variants of the antimitotic paclitaxel can be assembled through biocatalytic sequences.
Chiral amide from (1S,2R)-(+)-norephedrine alkaloid in the enantioselective addition of diethylzinc to aryl and heteroaryl aldehydes
Chiral amide synthesized from (1S,2R)-(+)-norephedrine and furoic acid was found to catalyze the enantioselective ethylation of aromatic and heteroaromatic aldehydes to secondary alcohols with 99.8% enantioselectivity at 0 degrees C without the addition of a promoter such as titanium tetraisopropoxide. (c) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.