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SUBMITTER: Santi N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8330412 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) 20210201 15
Here, the streptavidin-biotin technology was applied to enable organocatalytic transfer hydrogenation. By introducing a biotin-tethered pyrrolidine (1) to the tetrameric streptavidin (T-Sav), the resulting hybrid catalyst was able to mediate hydride transfer from dihydro-benzylnicotinamide (BNAH) to α,β-unsaturated aldehydes. Hydrogenation of cinnamaldehyde and some of its aryl-substituted analogues was found to be nearly quantitative. Kinetic measurements revealed that the T-Sav:1 assembly poss ...[more]