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ArticleNature chemistry2024

Remote stereocontrol with azaarenes via enzymatic hydrogen atom transfer.

Maolin Li, Wesley Harrison, Zhengyi Zhang, Yujie Yuan, Huimin Zhao

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Article in Nature chemistry, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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5 authors.

Maolin LiDOE Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9028-7468
Wesley HarrisonDOE Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8256-5926
Zhengyi ZhangDOE Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4228-8773
Yujie YuanDOE Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
Huimin ZhaoDOE Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA. zhao5@illinois.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-9069-6739

Funding

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) DE-SC0018420
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Strategies for achieving asymmetric catalysis with azaarenes have traditionally fallen short of accomplishing remote stereocontrol, which would greatly enhance accessibility to distinct azaarenes with remote chiral centres. The primary obstacle to achieving superior enantioselectivity for remote stereocontrol has been the inherent rigidity of the azaarene ring structure. Here we introduce an ene-reductase system capable of modulating the enantioselectivity of remote carbon-centred radicals on azaarenes through a mechanism of chiral hydrogen atom transfer. This photoenzymatic process effectively directs prochiral radical centres located more than six chemical bonds, or over 6 Å, from the nitrogen atom in azaarenes, thereby enabling the production of a broad array of azaarenes possessing a remote γ-stereocentre. Results from our integrated computational and experimental investigations underscore that the hydrogen bonding and steric effects of key amino acid residues are important for achieving such high stereoselectivities.

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HydrogenOxidoreductasesAmino AcidsCatalysisHydrogen BondingAmino AcidsHydrogenOxidoreductases

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