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Asymmetric synthesis of dihydropinidine enabled by concurrent multienzyme catalysis and a biocatalytic alternative to krapcho dealkoxycarbonylation. / Alvarenga, Natalia; Payer, Stefan E.; Petermeier, Philipp et al.
In: A C S Catalysis, Vol. 10, No. 2, 01.2020, p. 1607-1620.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Asymmetric synthesis of dihydropinidine enabled by concurrent multienzyme catalysis and a biocatalytic alternative to krapcho dealkoxycarbonylation
AU - Alvarenga, Natalia
AU - Payer, Stefan E.
AU - Petermeier, Philipp
AU - Kohlfuerst, Christoph
AU - Meleiro Porto, Andre Luiz
AU - Schrittwieser, Joerg H.
AU - Kroutil, Wolfgang
PY - 2020/1
Y1 - 2020/1
N2 - Dihydropinidine is a piperidine alkaloid found in spruce needles that has shown promising antifeedant activity against the large pine weevil, a widespread and economically relevant pest of coniferous tree plantations. Chemo-enzymatic approaches have previously been shown to enable a step-economic access to both enantiomers of this alkaloid, but the scalability of these syntheses is limited. Herein, we report a chemo-enzymatic route to dihydropinidine that is dominated by biocatalytic steps and affords the target alkaloid in excellent stereoisomeric purity (>99% ee and de) and high yield (57% overall) on multigram scale. Our synthesis makes use of a solvent-free, Lewis acid-catalyzed Michael addition and a biocatalytic alternative to Krapcho dealkoxycarbonylation, achieved by pig liver esterase (PLE)-catalyzed ester hydrolysis and acidification, and specifically developed for this purpose, to access a key intermediate, nonane-2,6-dione. This diketone is then converted into dihydropinidine by a concurrent one-pot (cascade) biotransformation catalyzed by a transaminase, an imine reductase, and an alcohol dehydrogenase. High yields and excellent regio- and stereoselectivities of the individual transformations render chromatographic purification of intermediates unnecessary and make it possible to carry out the entire sequence with a final hydrochloride precipitation of the target alkaloid as the sole purification step
AB - Dihydropinidine is a piperidine alkaloid found in spruce needles that has shown promising antifeedant activity against the large pine weevil, a widespread and economically relevant pest of coniferous tree plantations. Chemo-enzymatic approaches have previously been shown to enable a step-economic access to both enantiomers of this alkaloid, but the scalability of these syntheses is limited. Herein, we report a chemo-enzymatic route to dihydropinidine that is dominated by biocatalytic steps and affords the target alkaloid in excellent stereoisomeric purity (>99% ee and de) and high yield (57% overall) on multigram scale. Our synthesis makes use of a solvent-free, Lewis acid-catalyzed Michael addition and a biocatalytic alternative to Krapcho dealkoxycarbonylation, achieved by pig liver esterase (PLE)-catalyzed ester hydrolysis and acidification, and specifically developed for this purpose, to access a key intermediate, nonane-2,6-dione. This diketone is then converted into dihydropinidine by a concurrent one-pot (cascade) biotransformation catalyzed by a transaminase, an imine reductase, and an alcohol dehydrogenase. High yields and excellent regio- and stereoselectivities of the individual transformations render chromatographic purification of intermediates unnecessary and make it possible to carry out the entire sequence with a final hydrochloride precipitation of the target alkaloid as the sole purification step
U2 - 10.1021/acscatal.9b04611
DO - 10.1021/acscatal.9b04611
M3 - Journal article
VL - 10
SP - 1607
EP - 1620
JO - A C S Catalysis
JF - A C S Catalysis
SN - 2155-5435
IS - 2
ER -