Nature Communications (Jun 2016)

Highly regio- and enantioselective multiple oxy- and amino-functionalizations of alkenes by modular cascade biocatalysis

  • Shuke Wu,
  • Yi Zhou,
  • Tianwen Wang,
  • Heng-Phon Too,
  • Daniel I. C. Wang,
  • Zhi Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11917
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Biocatalysis can perform highly selective multi-step synthesis in one pot, but with a limited range of non-natural reactions and products. Here, the authors report regio- and enantioselective bio-cascades, able to convert styrenes into a number of nitrogen and oxygen containing chiral molecules.