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SUBMITTER: Hyster TK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4227740 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20141024 44
We recently demonstrated that variants of cytochrome P450BM3 (CYP102A1) catalyze the insertion of nitrogen species into benzylic C-H bonds to form new C-N bonds. An outstanding challenge in the field of C-H amination is catalyst-controlled regioselectivity. Here, we report two engineered variants of P450BM3 that provide divergent regioselectivity for C-H amination-one favoring amination of benzylic C-H bonds and the other favoring homo-benzylic C-H bonds. The two variants provide nearly identica ...[more]