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ArticleNature chemistry2022

Mimicry of the proton wire mechanism of enzymes inside a supramolecular capsule enables β-selective O-glycosylations.

Tian-Ren Li, Fabian Huck, GiovanniMaria Piccini, Konrad Tiefenbacher

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Article in Nature chemistry, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 31 papers.

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4 authors.

Tian-Ren LiDepartment of Chemistry, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-1468-4565
Fabian HuckDepartment of Chemistry, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-8764-4903
GiovanniMaria PicciniFacoltà di Informatica, Istituto Eulero, Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Lugano, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-3511-4281
Konrad TiefenbacherDepartment of Chemistry, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. konrad.tiefenbacher@unibas.ch.ORCID 0000-0002-3351-6121

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Abstract

Enzymes achieve high substrate and product selectivities by orientating and activating the substrate(s) appropriately inside a confined and finely optimized binding pocket. Although some basic aspects of enzymes have already been mimicked successfully with man-made catalysts, substrate activation by proton wires inside enzyme pockets has not been recreated with man-made catalysts so far. A proton wire facilitates the dual activation of a nucleophile and an electrophile via a reciprocal proton transfer, enabling highly stereoselective reactions under mild conditions. Here we present evidence for such an activation mode inside the supramolecular resorcin[4]arene capsule and demonstrate that it enables catalytic and highly β-selective glycosylation reactions-still a major challenge in glycosylation chemistry. Extensive control experiments provide very strong evidence that the reactions take place inside the molecular container. We show that this activation strategy is compatible with a broad scope of glycoside donors and nucleophiles, and is only limited by the cavity size.

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