3142-66-3Relevant articles and documents
Synthesis of α-hydroxy ketones and vicinal (R, R)-diols by Bacillus clausii DSM 8716T butanediol dehydrogenase
Bongaerts, Johannes,Jablonski, Melanie,Kipp, Carina Ronja,Molinnus, Denise,Muschallik, Lukas,Pohl, Martina,Sch?ning, Michael J.,Selmer, Thorsten,Siegert, Petra,Wagner, Torsten
, p. 12206 - 12216 (2020/04/20)
α-hydroxy ketones (HK) and 1,2-diols are important building blocks for fine chemical synthesis. Here, we describe the R-selective 2,3-butanediol dehydrogenase from B. clausii DSM 8716T (BcBDH) that belongs to the metal-dependent medium chain dehydrogenases/reductases family (MDR) and catalyzes the selective asymmetric reduction of prochiral 1,2-diketones to the corresponding HK and, in some cases, the reduction of the same to the corresponding 1,2-diols. Aliphatic diketones, like 2,3-pentanedione, 2,3-hexanedione, 5-methyl-2,3-hexanedione, 3,4-hexanedione and 2,3-heptanedione are well transformed. In addition, surprisingly alkyl phenyl dicarbonyls, like 2-hydroxy-1-phenylpropan-1-one and phenylglyoxal are accepted, whereas their derivatives with two phenyl groups are not substrates. Supplementation of Mn2+ (1 mM) increases BcBDH's activity in biotransformations. Furthermore, the biocatalytic reduction of 5-methyl-2,3-hexanedione to mainly 5-methyl-3-hydroxy-2-hexanone with only small amounts of 5-methyl-2-hydroxy-3-hexanone within an enzyme membrane reactor is demonstrated.
Engineering transketolase to accept both unnatural donor and acceptor substrates and produce α-hydroxyketones
Yu, Haoran,Hernández López, Roberto Icken,Steadman, David,Méndez-Sánchez, Daniel,Higson, Sally,Cázares-K?rner, Armando,Sheppard, Tom D.,Ward, John M.,Hailes, Helen C.,Dalby, Paul A.
, p. 1758 - 1776 (2019/11/16)
A narrow substrate range is a major limitation in exploiting enzymes more widely as catalysts in synthetic organic chemistry. For enzymes using two substrates, the simultaneous optimisation of both substrate specificities is also required for the rapid expansion of accepted substrates. Transketolase (TK) catalyses the reversible transfer of a C2-ketol unit from a donor substrate to an aldehyde acceptor and suffers the limitation of narrow substrate scope for industrial applications. Herein, TK from Escherichia?coli was engineered to accept both pyruvate, as a novel donor substrate, and unnatural acceptor aldehydes, including propanal, pentanal, hexanal and 3-formylbenzoic acid (FBA). Twenty single-mutant variants were first designed and characterised experimentally. Beneficial mutations were then recombined to construct a small library. Screening of this library identified the best variant with a 9.2-fold improvement in the yield towards pyruvate and propionaldehyde, relative to wild-type (WT). Pentanal and hexanal were used as acceptors to determine stereoselectivities of the reactions, which were found to be higher than 98% enantiomeric excess (ee) for the S configuration. Three variants were identified to be active for the reaction between pyruvate and 3-FBA. The best variant was able to convert 47% of substrate into product within 24?h, whereas no conversion was observed for WT. Docking experiments suggested a cooperation between the mutations responsible for donor and acceptor recognition, which would promote the activity towards both the acceptor and donor. The variants obtained have the potential to be used for developing catalytic pathways to a diverse range of high-value products.
Preparation method of 2,3-pentanedione
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Paragraph 0004; 0017-0019; 0024-0026; 0031-0033, (2018/09/08)
The invention discloses a preparation method of 2,3-pentanedione. The preparation method comprises the following steps: one or two of 3-hydroxy-2-pentanone and 2-hydroxy-3-pentanone is/are added to water and uniformly mixed with water, ozone is introduced at the temperature of 3-20 DEG C for a reaction, and 2,3-pentanedione is obtained. According to the synthesis process, ozone is adopted to oxidize the mixture containing 3-hydroxy-2-pentanone and 2-hydroxy-3-pentanone, acetic acid is adopted as a cocatalyst, reaction conditions are mild, and operation process is simple; product yield is high;cost is low; the method has the advantages of being safe and environmentally friendly, and no wastewater is produced.
