Mutti FG, Orthaber A, Schrittwieser JH, de Vries JG, Pietschnig R, Kroutil W. Simultaneous iridium catalysed oxidation and enzymatic reduction employing orthogonal reagents.
Chem Commun (Camb) 2010;
46:8046-8. [PMID:
20871888 DOI:
10.1039/c0cc02813d]
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Abstract
An iridium catalysed oxidation was coupled concurrently to an asymmetric biocatalytic reduction in one-pot; thus it was shown for the first time that iridium- and alcohol dehydrogenase-catalysed redox reactions are compatible. As a model system racemic chlorohydrins were transformed to enantioenriched chlorohydrins via an oxidation-asymmetric reduction sequence.
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