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Peroxidase‐Catalyzed Coupling of Solid‐Supported ortho ‐Methoxyphenols
Author(s) -
Antoniotti Sylvain,
Dordick Jonathan S.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
advanced synthesis and catalysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.541
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1615-4169
pISSN - 1615-4150
DOI - 10.1002/adsc.200505036
Subject(s) - chemistry , catalysis , peroxidase , hydroquinone , phenols , enzyme catalysis , organic chemistry , combinatorial chemistry , radical , photochemistry , stereochemistry , enzyme
Enzyme‐catalyzed CC bond formation has been performed on solid‐supported phenols, thereby expanding the repertoire of enzymatic catalysis on resin‐bound substrates. In the presence of hydroquinone bound to various commercial resins, soybean peroxidase catalyzed the coupling of apocynin (acetovanillone) to give dimers, trimers, and oligomers with structures similar to what is obtained in solution‐phase reactions. In addition to phenolic coupling, peroxidase catalyzed a Fries rearrangement presumably due to rearrangement of the acyl phenolic radicals generated on the solid phase through peroxidase catalysis. This represents the first enzymatic Fries rearrangement reported to date. Together with the solid‐phase biocatalytic phenolic coupling, these results provide a route to the further expansion of enzymatic catalysis in combinatorial library synthesis.