Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

A Cu(II)–ATP complex efficiently catalyses enantioselective Diels–Alder reactions

  • Changhao Wang,
  • Qianqian Qi,
  • Wenying Li,
  • Jingshuang Dang,
  • Min Hao,
  • Shuting Lv,
  • Xingchen Dong,
  • Youkun Gu,
  • Peizhe Wu,
  • Wenyue Zhang,
  • Yashao Chen,
  • Jörg S. Hartig

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18554-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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ATP acts as a co-substrate in enzyme catalysed reactions, but can also specifically bind metal ions. Here, the authors show that ATP interacts with copper ions and forms a Cu(II)-ATP complex that efficiently catalyses Diels-Alder reactions, and determine ATP residues that are essential for this activity.