关键词:
ENZYMES
ENANTIOSELECTIVE catalysis
CHIRALITY
HYDROLYSIS
CARBOXYLIC acids
KETONES
CHEMICAL reduction
摘要:
During the recent past years,tremendous efforts have been made to establishenantioselective routes for the preparation of enantiomerically pure compounds due to theirimportance in the pharmaceutical,agricultural,and food *** is reflected in the fact thatthe sales of single-enantiomer smallmolecule drugs has reached *** US10 billion ***,the FDA has become increasingly reluctant to permit the introduction of additionalracemic drugs,as these therapies are by definition saddled with 50% of chemical *** arenowadays widely recognized among the most active and selective catalysts for the preparation ofoptically active *** of the factors that account for this popularity are(1)They arechemo-,regio-,and stereoselective,and environmentally friendly.(2)Because of the mild conditionsunder which they operate,enzymatic reactions are affected to a lesser extent by sidereactions(***,racemiza-tion,epimerization,and rearrangement of molecules)as comparedto nonenzymatic ***,organic chemists have been traditionally reluctant to employbiocatalysts in their *** is mainly because,in their natural form,most of the enzymes arevery sensitive catalysts that exert their activity mainly in aqueous solution.