Enantioselective Synthesis of Chiral Vicinal Amino Alcohols Using Amine Dehydrogenases

Fei-fei Chen; Sebastian C. Cosgrove; William R. Birmingham; Juan Mangas-sanchez; Joan Citoler; Matthew P. Thompson; Gao-wei Zheng; Jian-he Xu; Nicholas J. Turner

doi:10.1021/acscatal.9b03889

Enantioselective Synthesis of Chiral Vicinal Amino Alcohols Using Amine Dehydrogenases

Fei-fei Chen
, Sebastian C. Cosgrove
, William R. Birmingham
, Juan Mangas-sanchez
, Joan Citoler
, Matthew P. Thompson
, Gao-wei Zheng
, Jian-he Xu
, Nicholas J. Turner

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Abstract

Chiral vicinal amino alcohols are an important motif found in many biologically active molecules. In this study, biocatalytic reductive amination of α-hydroxy ketones with ammonia was investigated using engineered amine dehydrogenases (AmDHs) derived from the leucine amino acid dehydrogenase (AADH) from Lysinibacillus fusiformis. The AmDHs thus identified enabled the synthesis of (S)-configured vicinal amino alcohols from the corresponding α-hydroxy ketones in up to 99% conversions and >99% ee. One of the AmDH variants was used to prepare a key intermediate for the antituberculosis pharmaceutical ethambutol.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	11813-11818
Journal	ACS Catalysis
Volume	9
Issue number	12
Early online date	18 Nov 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.9b03889
Publication status	Published - 6 Dec 2019

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Keywords

amine dehydrogenase
biocatalysis
chiral amino alcohols
directed evolution
reductive amination

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Enantioselective Synthesis of Chiral Vicinal Amino Alcohols Using Amine Dehydrogenases

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