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Biocatalytic site- and enantioselective oxidative dearomatization of phenols

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Chemistry, November 2017
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Title
Biocatalytic site- and enantioselective oxidative dearomatization of phenols
Published in
Nature Chemistry, November 2017
DOI 10.1038/nchem.2879
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Authors

Summer A. Baker Dockrey, April L. Lukowski, Marc R. Becker, Alison R. H. Narayan

Abstract

The biocatalytic transformations used by chemists are often restricted to simple functional-group interconversions. In contrast, nature has developed complexity-generating biocatalytic reactions within natural product pathways. These sophisticated catalysts are rarely employed by chemists, because the substrate scope, selectivity and robustness of these catalysts are unknown. Our strategy to bridge the gap between the biosynthesis and synthetic chemistry communities leverages the diversity of catalysts available within natural product pathways. Here we show that, starting from a suite of biosynthetic enzymes, catalysts with complementary substrate scope as well as selectivity can be identified. This strategy has been applied to the oxidative dearomatization of phenols, a chemical transformation that rapidly builds molecular complexity from simple starting materials and cannot be accomplished with high selectivity using existing catalytic methods. Using enzymes from biosynthetic pathways, we have successfully developed a method to produce ortho-quinol products with controlled site- and stereoselectivity. Furthermore, we have capitalized on the scalability and robustness of this method in gram-scale reactions as well as multi-enzyme and chemoenzymatic cascades.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 182 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 55 30%
Researcher 25 14%
Student > Bachelor 16 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 6%
Student > Master 10 5%
Other 27 15%
Unknown 38 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Chemistry 108 59%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 20 11%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 3 2%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 2%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 2%
Other 3 2%
Unknown 42 23%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 137. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 June 2022.
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#305,835
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#147
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