摘要:
A process for preparing optically active 2-[6-(hydroxy-methyl)-1,3-dioxan-4-yl]acetic acid derivatives which comprises reacting an enolate prepared by reacting an acetic acid ester derivative with a base or a zero-valent metal with (S)-β-hydroxy-η-butyrolactone at a temperature of -30°C or above to thereby obtain a dihydroxyoxohexanoic acid derivative, treating this derivative with an acylating agent in the presence of a base to thereby obtain a monoacylated derivative of dihydroxyoxohexanoic acid, reducing the monoacylated derivative with a microorganism into a monoacylated derivative of trihydroxyhexanoic acid, treating the resulting derivative with an acetal-forming reactant in the presence of an acid catalyst to thereby obtain an acyloxymethyldioxanylacetic acid derivative, and subjecting this derivative to solvolysis in the presence of a base.
摘要:
A process for preparing optically active N-benzyl-3-pyrrolidinol efficiently by reducing N-benzyl-3-pyrrolidinone stereoselectively through an enzymatic reaction. The process is one which comprises the step of treating N-benzyl-3-pyrrolidinone with cells of a microorganism, a culture thereof or a product of treatment thereof to form a reaction fluid and the step of recovering optically active N-benzyl-3-pyrrolidinol from the fluid, and wherein the microorganism is one belonging to the genus Depodascus, Debaryomyces, Cryptococcus, Pichia, Rhodosporidium, Trichosporon, Micrococcus, Komagataella, Ogataea or Zygosaccharomyces.
摘要:
A process for efficiently preparing an optically active chloropropanediol derivative, especially ( S )-1-benzyloxy-3-chloro-2-propanol, which has a high optical purity and is useful as an intermediate for medicines. The process comprises treating an inexpensive racemic chloropropanediol derivative with a nitroxyl compound and an oxidizing agent to convert it into a chlorohydroxyacetone derivative and then stereospecifically reducing the carbonyl group of the chlorohydroxyacetone derivative by the action of either a carbonyl-reducing enzyme having the ability to stereospecifically reduce the chlorohydroxyacetone derivative or an optically treated culture of a microorganism having the ability to yield the carbonyl-reducing enzyme. Thus, an optically active chloropropanediol derivative is prepared.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a method of producing an optically active pyridineethanol derivative. More particularly, it relates to a method of producing an optically active polycyclic pyridineethanol derivative by causing an enzyme or enzyme source to act on polycyclic acetylpyridine derivatives. The present invention also relates to a novel enzyme which can be used in the production method mentioned above, a DNA coding for said enzyme, a recombinant vector having said DNA, and a transformant having said recombinant vector. The invention further relates to a method of producing an optically active polycyclic pyridineethanol derivative by causing the above novel enzyme or the above transformant to act on optically inactive polycyclic pyridineethanol derivatives.
摘要:
An object of the present invention is to modify a wild-type enzyme that is less reactive in the presence of an organic solvent to provide altered carbonyl reductases having better reactivity in the presence of the organic solvent than the wild-type enzyme, and/or to provide transformants producing such reductases. The present inventors have found altered carbonyl reductases having better reactivity in the presence of an organic solvent than the wild-type enzyme, from among a mutant enzyme library prepared by randomly mutating the wild-type enzyme gene, thereby arriving at completion of the present invention.