Memory of chirality (MOC) is an emerging strategy in asymmetric synthesis. It has been applied to enolate chemistry, reactions involving carbocation intermediates, and to radical systems. In this strategy the chirality of an enantiopure reactant is transferred to the dynamic chirality of a reactive intermediate to produce stereospecific product. 1,4-Benzodiazepin-2-ones have been described as a "privileged" structure in medicinal chemistry. In addition to their uses as anxiolytics (Valium ®) and anti-epileptic agents (Clonopin ®), they have shown activity as HIV Tat antagonist, ras farnesyltransferase inhibitors in cancer cells, and antiarrhythmic agents. Because of the utility of this scaffold in the area of medicinal chemistry, it has served as a template in libraries for tens of thousands of compounds. Despite the vast diversity of 1,4-benzodiazepin-2-ones, there are few routes to enantiomerically enriched 3,3-disubstituted benzodiazepines containing a "quaternary" stereogenic center. This research will discuss the stereochemical properties of 1,4-benzodiazepin-2-ones, and provide a novel approach to synthesize enantiomerically enriched "quaternary" benzodiazepines with stereogenic centers through MOC, without the use of external chiral sources. / Ph. D.

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento CientÃfico e TecnolÃgico / O Brasil à o maior produtor mundial de laranja e de suco de laranja, sendo este setor de grande importÃncia para economia brasileira, responsÃvel por gerar mais de 400 mil empregos e movimentar cifras de bilhÃes de reais por ano. Mas, este setor tambÃm à responsÃvel pela produÃÃo de grande quantidade de rejeitos industriais, que equivalem a 50% do peso da fruta, sendo estes resÃduos utilizados na maioria das vezes como raÃÃo animal. Portanto o uso eficiente destes rejeitos se faz necessÃrio em um mundo em que as reservas naturais vÃm se esgotando. Neste sentido a biocatÃlise mostra-se como uma ferramenta promissora no uso destes resÃduos, que possuem enzimas em sua constituiÃÃo, para obtenÃÃo de produtos de alto valor agregado, as substÃncias enantiopuras. A aplicaÃÃo de diferentes metodologias, prÃticas e de baixo custo, possibilitou a sÃntese de alcoÃis quirais com alto excesso enantiomÃrico (ee) e boas taxas de conversÃo. ReaÃÃes de hidrÃlise e reduÃÃo foram processadas em meio aquoso e, as reaÃÃes de esterificaÃÃo foram realizadas em solvente orgÃnico, utilizando as casca da laranja como fonte de biocatalisadores. O uso das cascas da laranja como fonte de biocatalisador apresentou resultados bastante promissores, demonstrando capacidade catalÃtica em vÃrias reaÃÃes (reduÃÃo/oxidaÃÃo, hidrÃlise/esterificaÃÃo) atravÃs de metodologias simples e de baixo custo. ConversÃes de 46,90-96,70% foram alcanÃadas nas reaÃÃes de biorreduÃÃo acompanhado de ee variando de 21,15-99,00%. Nas reaÃÃes de hidrÃlise verificaram-se taxas de conversÃes de 19,20-80,82% e ee variando de 9,60-45,52%. Jà nas reaÃÃes de esterificaÃÃo, ee acima de 99% foram observados e conversÃes maiores que 80% foram alcanÃadas. Portanto, este estudo abre precedentes para uma ampla faixa de aplicaÃÃo desta fonte de biocatalisador (cascas da laranja), que atualmente à considerado como um rejeito industrial, contribuindo sobremaneira para agregar valor a todo um setor produtivo e industrial no qual o Brasil à lÃder, a indÃstria de suco de laranja. / The Brazil is the producing greater of world of orange and orange juice, being this sector of great importance for Brazilian, responsible economy for generating 400 thousand jobs and more than and putting into motion ciphers of billions per year. But, this sector also is responsible for the production of great amount of industrial rejetcs, that are equivalent 50% of the weight of the fruit, being these used residues most of the time as animal ration. Therefore the use efficient of these rejetcs if makes necessary in a world where the natural reserves come if depleting. In this direction biocatalysis is presented as a promising tool in the use of these residues, that contains enzymes in its constitution, for attainment of products of high added value, the substances enantiopure. The application of different methodologies, practical and of low cost, made possible the chiral alcohols synthesis with high enantiomeric excess (ee) and good taxes of conversion. Hydrolysis reactions and reduction had been processed in aqueous way e, the reactions of esterification had been carried through in organic solvent, using the rind of the orange as source of biocatalysis for such reactions. The use of the peel of the orange as biocatalysis source presented resulted sufficiently promising, demonstrating catalytic capacity in some reactions (reduction/oxidation, hydrolysis/esterification) through simple methodologies and of low cost. Conversions of 46,90-96,70% had been reached in the reactions of bioreduction shown of ee varying of 21,15-99,00%. In the hydrolysis reactions taxes of 19,20-80,82% conversions and ee had been verified varying of 9,60-45,52%. Already in the esterification reactions, ee above of 99% had been observed and bigger conversions that 80% had been reached. From there, this study it opens precedents for an ample band of application of this source of biocatalysis (pells of the orange), that currently it is considered as one reject industrial, contributing excessively to add value all a productive and industrial sector in which Brazil is leader, the orange juice industry

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento CientÃfico e TecnolÃgico / Este trabalho encontra-se dividido em duas partes: a primeira relacionada à biotransformaÃÃes de compostos orgÃnicos com a espÃcie Vigna unguiculata, e a segunda, relativa à sÃntese enzimÃtica de Ãsteres de cloranfenicol. ReaÃÃes de biorreduÃÃo de cetonas e nitrocompostos com grÃos de Vigna unguiculata (feijÃo de corda). ApÃs realizado um screnning com reduÃÃo de acetofenona variando-se as condiÃÃes reacionais, encontrou-se aquelas que levaram ao melhores resultados de conversÃo e excesso enantiomÃrico. Essas condiÃÃes foram aplicadas para outros 34 susbtratos, entre eles: cetonas alifÃticas e aromÃticas com diferentes substituintes no anel como: nitro, metÃxi, alquila e halogÃnios em vÃrias posiÃÃes, nitrocompostos, β-ceto-Ãsteres, uma cetona α,β-insaturada e benzonitrila. No geral, o resultados obtidos com as biorreduÃÃes podem ser considerados satisfatÃrios, assim como os valores de excesso enantiomÃrico. Na segunda parte, utilizou-se as lipases comerciais: CAL-B, PSL-C(I) e PSL-C Amano, em reaÃÃes de acilaÃÃo do fÃrmaco cloranfenicol, num estudo exaustivo em busca de condiÃÃes Ãtimas de reaÃÃo explorando principalmente a atividade regiosseletiva dessas enzimas. Foram obtidos oito derivados desse fÃrmaco, a depender do agente acilante utilizado, sendo sete destes, monoacilados e um, di-acilado. Como doador acila usou-se diversos Ãsteres vinÃlicos, saturados ou nÃo e com diversos tamanhos de cadeia. ParÃmetros reacionais como: variaÃÃo do solvente, da temperatura, concentraÃÃo do meio e agente acilante foram otimizados para obtenÃÃo desses derivados. Praticamente todos os produtos foram obtidos em elevados percentuais de conversÃo, exceto para aqueles que possuem insaturaÃÃo. Realizou-se ainda um procedimento em escala de bancada utilizando a enzima CAL-B, sendo obtidos resultados bem significativos em todos os casos. Ao final do estudo adotou-se um procedimento de reciclagem desta mesma enzima, onde ficou comprovada sua eficiÃncia no reuso. / This work is divided into two parts: the first related biotransformations of organic compounds with the species Vigna unguiculata, and the second on the enzymatic synthesis of esters of chloramphenicol. Reactions bioreduction of ketones and nitrocompounds with grains of Vigna unguiculata (feijÃo de corda). After performing a reduction of acetophenone with screnning varying the reaction conditions, we found those that led to better results for conversion and enantiomeric excess. These conditions were applied to 34 other susbtratos, including: aliphatic ketones and aromatic ring with different substituents such as nitro, methoxy, and alkyl halide in various positions, nitro, β-keto ester, a ketone α, β-unsaturated and benzonitrile. Overall, the results obtained with the biorreduÃÃes can be considered satisfactory, as well as the enantiomeric excess values. In the second part, we used the commercial lipases: CAL-B, PSL-C (I) and PSL-C Amano in acylation reactions of the drug chloramphenicol, an exhaustive study in search of optimum reaction conditions mainly exploring the activity regioselective these enzymes. Were obtained from eight derivatives of this drug, depending on the acylating agent used, seven of these, and a monoacilados, di-acylated. As acyl donor was used several vinyl esters, saturated or not and with various chain lengths. Reaction parameters such as: variations of the solvent, temperature, concentration of the acylating agent and medium were optimized to obtain these derivatives. Virtually all products were obtained in high percentages of conversion, except for those with unsaturation. It is also carried out in a bench scale procedure using the enzyme CAL-B, and significant results were obtained in all cases. At the end of the study we adopted a procedure for recycling of the same enzyme, which was proven its efficiency in reuse.

Submitted by Carolina Neves (carolinapon@uefs.br) on 2017-02-17T23:59:52Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Disserta??oJoseneideAlves.pdf: 3612959 bytes, checksum: a4ba8033510286e66a0d4453ad52d71d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-02-17T23:59:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Disserta??oJoseneideAlves.pdf: 3612959 bytes, checksum: a4ba8033510286e66a0d4453ad52d71d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-08-31 / The biorreduction has great importance in the production of optically pure substances and is widely used for asymmetric synthesis. Bioconversions occur with high specificity and efficiency because they are catalyzed by enzymes, forming one of the isomers from a pro-chiral substrate. This work had as main objective to evaluate the potential reduction of micro-organisms (yeasts, bacteria and fungi) isolated in the state of Bahia using as carbonyl substrate the acetophenone, analyzing its conversion into alcohol and identifying the enantiomeric excess produced. Strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae isolated from sugar cane brandy distilleries of Bahia state, rhizobacteria isolated from Arachis pintoi (forage peanut) in southern Bahia and endophytic fungi isolated Hevea brasiliensis. The products were analyzed by gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry to verify the conversion of the substrate in alcohol and enantiomeric excess was determined by gas chromatography with chiral stationary phase. Of the 28 microorganisms evaluated 18 acted as biocatalysts. Products of reduction of acetophenone were obtained with yields between 6 and 79% and enantiomeric excess from 41 to 100%. Fungi CDC026, CDC086 and MDF077 converted acetophenone into (R)-alcohol, with ee of 54, 56, and 84%, while the other strains that showed positive results for acetophenone yielded the (S)-alcohol. Whereas 64% of test organisms were able to act as catalysts in the enantioseletive reduction of acetophenone, it was observed that the microbial diversity of the state of Bahia is a source of new catalysts for the production of enantiomeric pure compounds. / A Biorredu??o tem grande import?ncia na produ??o de subst?ncias opticamente puras, sendo amplamente utilizada para s?nteses assim?tricas. As bioconvers?es ocorrem com alta especificidade e efici?ncia por serem catalisadas por enzimas, formando um dos is?meros a partir de um substrato pr?-quiral. O presente trabalho teve como objetivo principal avaliar o potencial redutor dos microrganismos (leveduras, bact?rias e fungos) isolados no territ?rio baiano frente ao substrato carbon?lico acetofenona; verificando a convers?o do substrato (acetofenona) em ?lcool quiral e identificando o excesso enantiom?rico com que as rea??es biocatal?ticas ocorreram. Foram utilizadas culturas de Saccharomyces cerevisiae isoladas em cacha?arias do estado da Bahia, rizobact?rias isoladas no sul da Bahia e fungos endof?ticos. Foi testada a a??o desses microrganismos sobre o substrato acetofenona. Os produtos foram analisados por Cromatografia gasosa acoplada a espetrometria de massa, para verificar a convers?o do substrato em ?lcool; o excesso enantiom?rico foi obtido em cromat?grafo gasoso equipado com coluna quiral obtendo-se separa??o para os is?meros da acetofenona com um excesso enantiom?rico de at? 100%, para a cepa bacteriana I68. Os fungos CDC026 e CDC086 converteram a acetofenona em (R)-?lcool, as demais cepas que apresentaram resultados positivos para aceofenona produziram o (S)-?lcool em excesso. Conclui-se que em geral os microrganismos testados apresentaram boa capacidade de redu??o da acetofenona em experimentos de biotransforma??o, constituindo-se fontes de compostos enantiomericamente puros.

This thesis describes the synthesis of novel ligands that include enantiomerically pure acetal and oxazoline moieties. These ligands are utilised in a number of metalmediated asymmetric syntheses. All asymmetric acetals and pyridine based acetals are synthesised in good yield in a single step from their corresponding enantiomerically pure diols. C2 symmetric bisacetals are investigated as ligands in the organolithium and Grignard additions to benzaldehyde with promising results. C2 symmetric bisacetals and pyridine based acetals are tested for their ability to induce asymmetry in copper(l) catalysed cyclopropanation of styrene using ethyl diazoacetate and the lanthanide(lII) catalysed Diels-Alder cycloaddition involving Danishefsky's diene with little success. Enantiomerically pure phosphinooxazoline ligands are available in good yield in two steps from their corresponding enantiomerically pure aminoalcohols. Enantiomerically pure acetal substituted pyridines and phosphinooxazoline ligands are considered in the rhodium (I) catalysed hydrosilylation of ketones. Reaction conditions for the more successful phosphinooxazoline ligands are optimised. Using these ligands a range of enantiomerically enriched alcohols is presented in good yield and enantiomeric excess. Novel phosphinooxazoline ligands are applied to the palladium(O) catalysed allylic substitution reaction with excellent enantioselectivities of the substitution product.

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<p>Enzymes are useful tools as specific analytical reagents. Two different analysis methods were developed for use in the separate fields of protein science and organic synthesis. Both methods rely on the substrate specificity of enzymes. Enzyme catalysis and substrate specificity is described and put in context with each of the two developed methods.</p><p>In <strong>paper I </strong>a method for C-terminal peptide sequencing was developed based on conventional Carboxypeptidase Y digestion combined with matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry. An alternative nucleophile was used to obtain a stable peptide ladder and improve sequence coverage.</p><p>In paper<strong> II </strong>and <strong>III</strong>, three different enzymes were used for rapid analysis of enantiomeric excess and conversion of O-acylated cyanohydrins synthesized by a defined protocol. Horse liver alcohol dehydrogenase,<em> Candida antarctica</em> lipase<strong> </strong>B<strong> </strong>and pig liver esterase were sequentially added to a solution containing the O-acylated cyanohydrin. Each enzyme caused a drop in absorbance from oxidation of NADH to NAD⁺. The conversion and enantiomeric excess of the sample could be calculated from the relative differences in absorbance.</p>

Chirality is the property of objects, including molecules, which are not superimposable on their materialized mirror image. Chiral molecules are omnipresent in living organisms and the constituents of biological macromolecules (proteins and nucleic acids) are chiral. Amino-acids (constituting proteins), ribose and 2-deoxy-ribose (the only chiral constituent of RNA and DNA nucleotides respectively) are furthermore generally present in living organisms only under one of their enantiomeric forms. This is referred to as the homochirality of the living world. The origin of this homochirality is still unexplained, even if many partial scenarios have been proposed in the literature. All scenarios involve the creation of a small enantiomeric excess for certain molecules, amplification of this excess and chirality transfer to other chiral molecules. The origin of homochirality on Earth is closely related to the origin of life, and is currently supposed to have preceded life. As no-one will ever be able to directly observe the phenomena which lead to homochirality, and life, on our planet, the only scientific approach to try and help explain how this occurred is to build scenarios, and test them taking into account all available information on the physical and chemical conditions on the primitive Earth (Earth before life appeared). In our work, we investigated three scenarios related to the origin of homochirality on Earth. One of these scenarios also relates to a very precise step of the origin of life: the selection of beta-d-ribofuranose as component of RNA nucleotides.<p><p>Enantiomeric excesses (up to 15 %) of alpha-methylated alpha-amino-acids have been detected in meteorites which fell on Earth during the 20th century. No enantiomeric excess is detected for the corresponding alpha-hydroxy-acids in the same meteoritic samples and small (2% at most) or no enantiomeric excesses have been measured for non-methylated alpha-amino-acids. In the first part of our work, we investigated if photolysis by circularly polarized light (CPL) in space could be at the origin of the presence (or absence) of an enantiomeric excess for these compounds. Experiments to reproduce UV-CPL photolysis are difficult to undertake: they require high-energy circularly polarized photons, hence the use of a synchrotron. In our work, we used quantum mechanical calculations to obtain the electronic circular dichroïsm (ECD) spectra of two -methylated -amino-acids, their corresponding alpha-hydroxy-acids and one non-methylated alpha-amino-acid. Differences are observed between these spectra, and we propose a scenario to explain the experimental measurements reported here above: the enantioselective photolysis, in the gas phase at low temperatures (20K at most), of the alpha-amino-acids by UV-CPL with lambda>210 nm. Under these conditions no photolysis of the alpha-hydroxy-acids would occur. This scenario concerns the first step in the origin of homochirality on Earth: the creation of a small enantiomeric excess for some chiral molecules.<p><p>The second scenario that we investigated relates to the enantiomeric amplification step of the origin of homochirality on Earth, for which the role of the alpha-amino-acid serine has been suggested in the literature. Serine clusters have been observed in the gas phase by mass spectrometry. Among these clusters the octamer has been shown to be a magic number cluster and to have a preference for homochirality. An enantiomeric amplification via cycles of formation and dissociation of the octamer has been suggested. No complete scenario has however been proposed in the literature to explain how this could have occurred on the primitive Earth, but any scenario would most probably include an aqueous phase. We aimed at determining if the homochiral preference of serine octamers also exists in solution and therefore we first investigated if serine octamers exist in solution. For this study, we used nuclear magnetic resonance and infrared spectroscopies, which are well-adapted to the study of molecular assemblies in solution. We were able to demonstrate that most probably serine clusters are not present in solution, and if they are it could only be in extremely low concentration. The scenario suggested in the literature is discussed in the light of our results and of literature data on serine clusters.<p><p>As last hypothesis, we investigated a possible scenario for the selection of beta-d-ribofuranose as component of RNA nucleotides. The currently known prebiotic synthesis pathways to ribose also lead to the formation of many other carbohydrates, and ribose is only a minor product of these syntheses. Our hypothesis is that beta-d-ribofuranose could have been selected through favorable interactions with alpha-amino-acids already present on the primitive Earth under one enantiomeric form. Indeed, it is plausible that a peptidic world emerged before the presence of RNA and that homochiral alpha-amino-acids were present on Earth when RNA was synthesized. Under this hypothesis, we investigated the role that alpha-l-amino-acids could have played in the selection of alpha-d-ribofuranose as component of RNA nucleotides. This work is related to the last step of the origin of homochirality: chirality transfer. Our scenario was investigated via nuclear magnetic resonance studies of the interaction between alpha-amino-acids and carbohydrates. We were able to show that, in the systems that we studied, when an interaction occurs it is very weak (affinity constant less than 1M−1) and non enantioselective. Our results most probably discard the role that alpha-amino-acids alone could have played in the selection of beta-d-ribofuranose as component of RNA nucleotides, but does not discard the role that peptides could have played in this selection. / Doctorat en Sciences de l'ingénieur / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Enzymes are useful tools as specific analytical reagents. Two different analysis methods were developed for use in the separate fields of protein science and organic synthesis. Both methods rely on the substrate specificity of enzymes. Enzyme catalysis and substrate specificity is described and put in context with each of the two developed methods. In paper I a method for C-terminal peptide sequencing was developed based on conventional Carboxypeptidase Y digestion combined with matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry. An alternative nucleophile was used to obtain a stable peptide ladder and improve sequence coverage. In paper II and III, three different enzymes were used for rapid analysis of enantiomeric excess and conversion of O-acylated cyanohydrins synthesized by a defined protocol. Horse liver alcohol dehydrogenase, Candida antarctica lipase B and pig liver esterase were sequentially added to a solution containing the O-acylated cyanohydrin. Each enzyme caused a drop in absorbance from oxidation of NADH to NAD+. The conversion and enantiomeric excess of the sample could be calculated from the relative differences in absorbance. / QC 20101108

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