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  • Cooperative Photometallobiocatalysis: Nonheme Fe Enzyme‐Catalyzed Enantioconvergent Radical Decarboxylative Azidation, Thiocyanation, and Isocyanation of Redox‐Active Esters
Title: Cooperative Photometallobiocatalysis: Nonheme Fe Enzyme‐Catalyzed Enantioconvergent Radical Decarboxylative Azidation, Thiocyanation, and Isocyanation of Redox‐Active Esters
Abstract Cooperative catalysis with an enzyme and a small‐molecule photocatalyst has recently emerged as a potentially general activation mode to advance novel biocatalytic reactions with synthetic utility. Herein, we report cooperative photobiocatalysis involving an engineered nonheme Fe enzyme and a tailored photoredox catalyst to achieve enantioconvergent decarboxylative azidation, thiocyanation, and isocyanation of redox‐active esters via a radical mechanism. We repurposed and further evolved metapyrocatechase (MPC), a nonheme Fe extradiol dioxygenase not previously studied in new‐to‐nature biocatalysis, for the enantioselective C─N3, C─SCN, and C─NCO bond formation via an enzymatic Fe─X intermediate (X═N3, NCS, and NCO). A range of primary, secondary, and tertiary alkyl radical precursors were effectively converted by our engineered MPC, allowing the syntheses of organic azides, thiocyanates, and isocyanates with good to excellent enantiocontrol. Further derivatization of these products furnished valuable compounds including enantioenriched amines, triazoles, ureas, and SCF3‐containing products. DFT and MD simulations shed light on the mechanism as well as the binding poses of the alkyl radical intermediate in the enzyme active site and the π‐facial selectivity in the enantiodetermining radical rebound. Overall, cooperative photometallobiocatalysis with nonheme Fe enzymes provides a means to develop challenging asymmetric radical transformations eluding small‐molecule catalysis.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2400087
PAR ID:
10617329
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
Wiley VCH
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Volume:
64
Issue:
29
ISSN:
1433-7851
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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