No / The oligomerisation of L-amino acids by papain was studied in a mixer ball mill and in a planetary ball mill. The biocatalyst proved stable under the ball milling conditions providing the corresponding oligopeptides in good to excellent yields and with a variable degree of polymerisation. Both parameters were found to be dependent on the reaction conditions and on the nature of the amino acid (specifically on its side-chain size and hydrophobicity). In addition, the chemoenzymatic oligomerisation was demonstrated by utilising twin-screw extrusion technology, which allowed for a scalable continuous process. Finally, the synthesised oligo(L-Leu) 2b proved to be active as a catalyst in the Juliá–Colonna enantioselective epoxidation of chalcone derivatives. / We acknowledge RWTH Aachen University for support by the Distinguished Professorship Program funded by the Excellence Initiative of the German federal and state governments. We kindly acknowledge Marcus Frings and Plamena Staleva for the HPLC analysis of products 4a–c (RWTH Aachen University) and ASEP for the TGA analysis (Queen’s University Belfast). D. E. C. and S. L. J. acknowledge the agency EPSRC, grant no. EP/R019655/1. Part of this work was performed at the Center for Chemical Polymer Technology (CPT) unit of DWI, which was supported by the EU and the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (grant EFRE 30 00 883 02).
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/17696 |
| Date | 03 March 2020 |
| Creators | Ardila-Fierro, K., Crawford, Deborah E., Körner, A., James, S.L., Bolm, C., Hernández, J.G. |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article, No full-text in the repository |
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