From nature to industry: Harnessing enzymes for biocatalysis

R Buller, S Lutz, RJ Kazlauskas, R Snajdrova… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Biocatalysis harnesses enzymes to make valuable products. This green technology is used
in countless applications from bench scale to industrial production and allows practitioners …

Photocatalyzed Enantioselective Functionalization of C(sp3)–H Bonds

GQ Xu, WD Wang, PF Xu - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Owing to its diverse activation processes including single-electron transfer (SET) and
hydrogen-atom transfer (HAT), visible-light photocatalysis has emerged as a sustainable …

Remote stereocontrol with azaarenes via enzymatic hydrogen atom transfer

M Li, W Harrison, Z Zhang, Y Yuan, H Zhao - Nature Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
Strategies for achieving asymmetric catalysis with azaarenes have traditionally fallen short
of accomplishing remote stereocontrol, which would greatly enhance accessibility to distinct …

Single-electron oxidation-initiated enantioselective hydrosulfonylation of olefins enabled by photoenzymatic catalysis

Q Shi, XW Kang, Z Liu, P Sakthivel… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Controlling the enantioselectivity of hydrogen atom transfer (HAT) reactions has been a long-
standing synthetic challenge. While recent advances on photoenzymatic catalysis have …

Asymmetric carbohydroxylation of alkenes using photoenzymatic catalysis

Y Ouyang, J Turek-Herman, T Qiao… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Alkene difunctionalizations enable the synthesis of structurally elaborated products from
simple and ubiquitous starting materials in a single chemical step. Carbohydroxylations of …

Building enzymes through design and evolution

EJ Hossack, FJ Hardy, AP Green - ACS Catalysis, 2023 - ACS Publications
Designing efficient enzymes is a formidable challenge at the forefront of modern
biocatalysis. Here, we review recent developments in the field and illustrate how the …

Red Light–Blue Light Chromoselective C(sp2)–X Bond Activation by Organic Helicenium-Based Photocatalysis

MM Hossain, AC Shaikh, R Kaur… - Journal of the American …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Chromoselective bond activation has been achieved in organic helicenium (n Pr-DMQA+)-
based photoredox catalysis. Consequently, control over chromoselective C (sp2)–X bond …

An evolved artificial radical cyclase enables the construction of bicyclic terpenoid scaffolds via an H-atom transfer pathway

D Chen, X Zhang, AA Vorobieva, R Tachibana… - Nature Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
While natural terpenoid cyclases generate complex terpenoid structures via cationic
mechanisms, alternative radical cyclization pathways are underexplored. The metal …

Asymmetric Synthesis of α-Chloroamides via Photoenzymatic Hydroalkylation of Olefins

Y Liu, SG Bender, D Sorigue, DJ Diaz… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Photoenzymatic intermolecular hydroalkylations of olefins are highly enantioselective for
chiral centers formed during radical termination but poorly selective for centers set in the C …

A de novo metalloenzyme for cerium photoredox catalysis

AS Klein, F Leiss-Maier, R Mühlhofer… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Cerium photoredox catalysis has emerged as a powerful strategy to activate molecules
under mild conditions. Radical intermediates are formed using visible light and simple …