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Facile Access to Chiral Alcohols with Pharmaceutical Relevance Using a Ketoreductase Newly Mined from Pichia guilliermondii
Author(s) -
Xu Guochao,
Yu Huilei,
Xu Jianhe
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
chinese journal of chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.28
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1614-7065
pISSN - 1001-604X
DOI - 10.1002/cjoc.201201119
Subject(s) - chemistry , synthon , ketone , substrate (aquarium) , enantiomeric excess , stereoselectivity , biocatalysis , alcohol , enantiomer , combinatorial chemistry , enzyme , organic chemistry , enantioselective synthesis , catalysis , reaction mechanism , oceanography , geology
Chiral secondary alcohols with additional functional groups are frequently required as important and valuable synthons for pharmaceuticals, agricultural and other fine chemicals. With the advantages of environmentally benign reaction conditions, broad reaction scope, and high stereoselectivity, biocatalytic reduction of prochiral ketones offers significant potential in the synthesis of optically active alcohols. A Cm CR homologous carbonyl reductase from Pichia guilliermondii NRRL Y‐324 was successfully overexpressed. Substrate profile characterization revealed its broad substrate specificity, covering aryl ketones, aliphatic ketones and ketoesters. Furthermore, a variety of ketone substrates were asymmetrically reduced by the purified enzyme with an additionally NADPH regeneration system. The reduction system exhibited excellent enantioselectivity (>99% ee ) in the reduction of all the aromatic ketones and ketoesters, except for 2‐bromoacetophenone (93.5% ee ). Semi‐preparative reduction of six ketones was achieved with high enantioselectivity (>99% ee ) and isolation yields (>80%) within 12 h. This study provides a useful guidance for further application of this enzyme in the asymmetric synthesis of chiral alcohol enantiomers.