Chemical and chemoenzymatic routes to bridged homoarabinofuranosylpyrimidines: Bicyclic AZT analogues

• Sandeep Kumar,
• Jyotirmoy Maity,
• Banty Kumar,
• Sumit Kumar and
• Ashok K. Prasad

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 95–101, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.10

• -glucofuranose following chemoenzymatic and chemical routes in 34–35% and 24–25% overall yields, respectively. The quantitative and diastereoselective acetylation of primary hydroxy over two secondary hydroxy groups present in the key nucleoside precursor was mediated with Lipozyme® TL IM in 2

• chemoenzymatic method was found to be superior over the chemical method in respect of the number of synthetic steps and overall yield of the final product. Keywords: bicyclic AZT analogues; bridged homoarabinofuranosylpyrimidine nucleosides; chemical pathway; Lipozyme® TL IM; regioselective enzymatic

• ) immobilized on polyacrylate (Lewatit), commonly known as Novozyme® 435 and Thermomyces lanuginosus lipase immobilized on silica, commonly known as Lipozyme® TL IM in different organic solvents, such as THF, acetonitrile, toluene, acetone, DIPE and 2-Me-THF. Vinyl acetate was used as acetyl donor at

Regioselective chemoenzymatic syntheses of ferulate conjugates as chromogenic substrates for feruloyl esterases

• Olga Gherbovet,
• Fernando Ferreira,
• Apolline Clément,
• Mélanie Ragon,
• Julien Durand,
• Sophie Bozonnet,
• Michael J. O'Donohue and
• Régis Fauré

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 325–333, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.30

• -arabinofuranosides were significantly shortened (from 7 or 8 to 4–6 steps), and the transesterification yields were enhanced (from 46 to 73% and from 47 to 86%, respectively). This was achieved using enzymatic (immobilized Lipozyme® TL IM from Thermomyces lanuginosus) transesterification of unprotected vinyl

• in 56% in-house yield and in up to 77% previously reported yield [24][25] in one step on a gram scale) using Lipozyme® TL IM (a commercially available immobilized lipase from T. lanuginosus that efficiently catalyzes the transesterification of cinnamates) [26][27][28] and readily available and

• regioselectivity of transesterifications of hydroxylated alkyl and/or aryl moieties are sparser [26][34][35][36]. The extent to which Lipozyme® TL IM catalyzes feruloyl transfer reactions involving substituted benzylic alcohols was thus investigated to establish its usefulness for the preparation of both various

Enzymatic separation of epimeric 4-C-hydroxymethylated furanosugars: Synthesis of bicyclic nucleosides

• Neha Rana,
• Manish Kumar,
• Vinod Khatri,
• Jyotirmoy Maity and
• Ashok K. Prasad

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2078–2086, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.205

• different lipases, i.e., Thermomyces lanuginosus lipase immobilized on silica (Lipozyme® TL IM) and Candida antarctica lipase-B immobilized on polyacrylate (Lewatit), commonly known as Novozyme®-435 in five different organic solvents, viz. 2-methyltetrahydofuran (2-methyl-THF), acetonitrile (MeCN

• of synthetic carbohydrate and nucleoside chemistry. Experimental The Candida antarctica lipase-B (CAL-B or Novozyme®-435) immobilized on polyacrylate was purchased from Sigma-Aldrich Co. (USA). Theremomyces lanuginosus lipase (Lipozyme TL IM) immobilized on silica was obtained as a gift from

• Table 1. Screening of Novozyme®-435 and Lipozyme TL IM in different organic solvents at 35 °C for regioselective acetylation of trihydroxyribo/xylofuranose 3a and 3b (none of the reactions yielded any product when performed in the absence of the enzyme). ORTEP diagram of tosylated sugar derivatives 5

First chemoenzymatic stereodivergent synthesis of both enantiomers of promethazine and ethopropazine

• Paweł Borowiecki,
• Daniel Paprocki and
• Maciej Dranka

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 3038–3055, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.322

• chemoenzymatic route. The central chiral building block, 1-(10H-phenothiazin-10-yl)propan-2-ol, was obtained via a lipase-mediated kinetic resolution protocol, which furnished both enantiomeric forms, with superb enantioselectivity (up to E = 844), from the racemate. Novozym 435 and Lipozyme TL IM have been

• Lipozyme TL IM were established as optimal biocatalysts for the enantioselective transesterification when suspended in 30 equiv of vinyl acetate as the acyl donor, methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) as co-solvent, and carried out at 25 °C, with agitation speed of the magnetic stirrer arranged at 500 rpm, and

• separated) (see the Supporting Information File 1 for details). The plots presented in Figure 1 clearly indicate that in terms of enantioselectivity, the best results were obtained with Lipozyme TL IM with an enantiomeric ratio factor (E) reaching up to 790 for 49% conversion achieved after 14 days, whereas