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SUBMITTER: Lauder K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7496879 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) 20200716 46
The enantioselective synthesis of α-thiocarboxylic acids by biocatalytic dynamic kinetic resolution (DKR) of nitrile precursors exploiting nitrilase enzymes is described. A panel of 35 nitrilase biocatalysts were screened and enzymes Nit27 and Nit34 were found to catalyse the DKR of racemic α-thionitriles under mild conditions, affording the corresponding carboxylic acids with high conversions and good-to-excellent ee. The ammonia produced in situ during the biocatalytic transformation favours t ...[more]