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ArticleAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)2026

Harnessing Photoenzymatic Systems for Intermolecular C-H Fluorination.

Yu Zhou, Danielle Lawson, Zihan Zhang, Yunling Deng, Hejun Deng, Connor J O'Dea, Zachariah A Page, Yi Lu

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Article in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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8 authors.

Yu ZhouDepartment of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1882-9891
Danielle LawsonDepartment of Molecular Bioscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA.
Zihan ZhangDepartment of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA.ORCID 0009-0005-3218-4849
Yunling DengDepartment of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7157-144X
Hejun DengDepartment of Biochemistry, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA.
Connor J O'DeaDepartment of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA.
Zachariah A PageDepartment of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1013-5422
Yi LuDepartment of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1221-6709

Funding

Design and Selection of Novel Metalloenzymes for Biocatalysis, Bioimaging, and Genetic EngineeringR35GM141931 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI Yi Lu · 2021 to 2026
$3.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM141931NIH HHS GM141931Welch Foundation F-0020Welch Foundation F-2007
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Organofluorine compounds are vital in pharmaceuticals, and enzymes, nature's most efficient catalysts, offer tremendous potential for precise fluorination. However, no enzymatic strategies for intermolecular C-H fluorination have been realized-until now. We present the first radical photoenzymatic system enabling intermolecular C-H fluorination using an unnatural amino acid within a robust de novo protein scaffold. This system achieves chemoselective benzylic monofluorination in aqueous solutions with Selectfluor, driven by hydrogen atom transfer from the photoexcited amino acid. It successfully fluorinated various aromatic compounds and enabled biosynthesis of fluorinated polyketides and chiral fluorinated alcohols. These results establish radical photoenzymatic systems as a powerful new approach for efficient, selective biocatalytic fluorination, with direct relevance to pharmaceuticals.

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Amino AcidsHalogenationHydrogenMolecular StructurePhotochemical ProcessesPolyketidesAmino AcidsHydrogenPolyketidesBiocatalysisBiosynthesisFluorinationPhotoenzymesProtein engineering

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PMID41423872
PMCPMC12851014

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