Photobiocatalytic strategies for organic synthesis

MA Emmanuel, SG Bender, C Bilodeau… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Biocatalysis has revolutionized chemical synthesis, providing sustainable methods for
preparing various organic molecules. In enzyme-mediated organic synthesis, most reactions …

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 …

Stereoselective amino acid synthesis by synergistic photoredox-pyridoxal radical biocatalysis

L Cheng, D Li, BK Mai, Z Bo, L Cheng, P Liu, Y Yang - Science, 2023 - science.org
Developing synthetically useful enzymatic reactions that are not known in biochemistry and
organic chemistry is an important challenge in biocatalysis. Through the synergistic merger …

Photoenzymatic enantioselective intermolecular radical hydroamination

Z Zhang, J Feng, C Yang, H Cui, W Harrison, D Zhong… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Since the discovery of Hofmann–Löffler–Freytag reaction more than 130 years ago, both the
structure and reactivity of nitrogen-centred radicals have been widely studied. Nevertheless …

Direct visible-light-excited flavoproteins for redox-neutral asymmetric radical hydroarylation

B Zhao, J Feng, L Yu, Z Xing, B Chen, A Liu, F Liu… - Nature Catalysis, 2023 - nature.com
State-of-the-art non-natural photoenzymatic catalysis typically relies on either ultraviolet light
activation or the formation of electron donor–acceptor complexes. Inspired by nature, herein …

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 …

Enantioselective decarboxylative alkylation using synergistic photoenzymatic catalysis

SZ Sun, BT Nicholls, D Bain, T Qiao, CG Page… - Nature Catalysis, 2024 - nature.com
Photoenzymatic catalysts are attractive for stereoselective radical reactions because the
transformation occurs within tunable enzyme active sites. When using flavoproteins for non …

Radical hydrocarboxylation of unactivated alkenes via photocatalytic formate activation

SN Alektiar, J Han, Y Dang, CZ Rubel… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Herein we disclose a strategy to promote the hydrocarboxylation of unactivated alkenes
using photochemical activation of formate salts. We illustrate that an alternative initiation …

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 …

Catalytic asymmetric hydrogen atom transfer: enantioselective hydroamination of alkenes

BG Hejna, JM Ganley, H Shao, H Tian… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We report a highly enantioselective radical-based hydroamination of enol esters with
sulfonamides jointly catalyzed by an Ir photocatalyst, Brønsted base, and tetrapeptide thiol …