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SUBMITTER: Corrado ML
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7116804 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Corrado Maria L ML Knaus Tanja T Mutti Francesco G FG
Green chemistry : an international journal and green chemistry resource : GC 20191029 23
We report an enzymatic route for the formal regio- and stereoselective aminohydroxylation of β-methylstyrene that consumes only dioxygen, ammonia and formate; carbonate is the by-product. The biocascade entails highly selective epoxidation, hydrolysis and hydrogen-borrowing alcohol amination. Thus, β-methylstyrene was converted into 1<i>R</i>,2<i>R</i> and 1<i>S</i>,2<i>R</i>-phenylpropanolamine in 59-63% isolated yields, and up to >99.5: <0.5 dr and er. ...[more]