Recent advances in enzymatic oxidation of alcohols.

Recent advances in enzymatic oxidation of alcohols. Curr Opin Chem Biol. 2017 Dec 16;43:77-86 Authors: Liu J, Wu S, Li Z Abstract Enzymatic alcohol oxidation plays an important role in chemical synthesis. In the past two years, new alcohol oxidation enzymes were developed through genome-mining and protein engineering, such as new copper radical oxidases with broad substrate scope, alcohol dehydrogenases with altered cofactor preference and a flavin-dependent alcohol oxidase with enhanced oxygen coupling. New cofactor recycling methods were reported for alcohol dehydrogenase-catalyzed oxidation with photocatalyst and coupled glutaredoxin-glutathione reductase as promising examples. Different alcohol oxidation systems were used for the oxidation of primary and secondary alcohols, especially in the cascade conversion of alcohols to lactones, lactams, chiral amines, chiral alcohols and hydroxyketones. Among them, biocatalyst with low enantioselectivity demonstrated an interesting feature for complete conversion of racemic secondary alcohols through non-enantioselective oxidation. PMID: 29258054 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Current Opinion in Chemical Biology - Category: Biochemistry Authors: Tags: Curr Opin Chem Biol Source Type: research