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SUBMITTER: Liu YC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6468324 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Liu Yu-Chang YC Merten Christian C Deska Jan J
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20180820 37
Alcohol dehydrogenases can act as powerful catalysts in the preparation of optically pure γ-hydroxy-δ-lactones by means of an enantioconvergent dynamic redox isomerization of readily available Achmatowicz-type pyranones. Imitating the traditionally metal-mediated "borrowing hydrogen" approach to shuffle hydrides across molecular architectures and interconvert functional groups, this chemoinspired and purely biocatalytic interpretation effectively expands the enzymatic toolbox and provides new op ...[more]