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Bifunctional Imine Reductase Cascades for the Synthesis of Saturated N-Heterocycles (2024)
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Ramsden, J. I., Zucoloto da Costa, B., Heath, R. S., Marshall, J. R., Derrington, S. R., Mangas-Sanchez, J., …Turner, N. J. (2024). Bifunctional Imine Reductase Cascades for the Synthesis of Saturated N-Heterocycles. ACS catalysis, 14(19), 14703-14710. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.4c03832

Saturated N-heterocycles constitute a vital scaffold for pharmaceutical chemistry but are challenging to access synthetically, particularly asymmetrically. Here, we demonstrate how imine reductases can achieve annulation through tandem inter- and int... Read More about Bifunctional Imine Reductase Cascades for the Synthesis of Saturated N-Heterocycles.

Future directions in flow biocatalysis: The impact of new technology on sustainability (2024)
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Ruscoe, R. E., & Cosgrove, S. C. (2024). Future directions in flow biocatalysis: The impact of new technology on sustainability. Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry, 49, Article 100954. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100954

Flow chemistry is now a key technology for synthetic chemistry, with the different operating windows available allowing new chemistry to be optimised and discovered. The related area of flow biocatalysis is also becoming increasingly recognised as an... Read More about Future directions in flow biocatalysis: The impact of new technology on sustainability.

Accessing active fragments for drug discovery utilising nitroreductase biocatalysis. (2024)
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Holder, L., Yuce, E., Oriomah, G., Jenkins, A.-P., Reynisson, J., Winter, A., & Cosgrove, S. (in press). Accessing active fragments for drug discovery utilising nitroreductase biocatalysis. ChemBioChem, 25(18), Article e202400428. https://doi.org/10.1002/cbic.202400428

Biocatalysis has played a limited role in the early stages of drug discovery. This is often attributed to the limited substrate scope of enzymes not affording access to vast areas of novel chemical space. Here, we have shown a promiscuous nitroreduct... Read More about Accessing active fragments for drug discovery utilising nitroreductase biocatalysis..

Harnessing a Biocatalyst to Bioremediate the Purification of Alkylglycosides (2023)
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Wahart, A. J. C., Dolan, J. P., Anderson, S. D., Cheallaigh, A. N., Staniland, J., Lima, M. A., …Cosgrove, S. C. (2023). Harnessing a Biocatalyst to Bioremediate the Purification of Alkylglycosides. ChemBioChem, Article e202300752. https://doi.org/10.1002/cbic.202300752

Wahart et al. demonstrate the use of an immobilised oxidase enzyme coupled to an extractive amino resin for the bioremediation of a common industrial surfactant. This allows the facile purification of alkyl monoglucosides without the need for high en... Read More about Harnessing a Biocatalyst to Bioremediate the Purification of Alkylglycosides.

Harnessing a Biocatalyst to Bioremediate the Purification of Alkylglycosides. (2023)
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Wahart, A. J. C., Dolan, J. P., Anderson, S. D., Cheallaigh, A. N., Staniland, J., Lima, M. A., …Cosgrove, S. C. (in press). Harnessing a Biocatalyst to Bioremediate the Purification of Alkylglycosides. ChemBioChem, Article e202300625. https://doi.org/10.1002/cbic.202300625

As the world moves towards net-zero carbon emissions, the development of sustainable chemical manufacturing processes is essential. Within manufacturing, purification by distillation is often used, however this process is energy intensive and methods... Read More about Harnessing a Biocatalyst to Bioremediate the Purification of Alkylglycosides..

RetroBioCat Database: A Platform for Collaborative Curation and Automated Meta-Analysis of Biocatalysis Data (2023)
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Finnigan, W., Lubberink, M., Hepworth, L. J., Citoler, J., Mattey, A. P., Ford, G. J., …Turner, N. J. (2023). RetroBioCat Database: A Platform for Collaborative Curation and Automated Meta-Analysis of Biocatalysis Data. ACS catalysis, 13(17), 11771-11780. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.3c01418

Despite the increasing use of biocatalysis for organic synthesis, there are currently no databases that adequately capture synthetic biotransformations. The lack of a biocatalysis database prevents accelerating biocatalyst characterization efforts fr... Read More about RetroBioCat Database: A Platform for Collaborative Curation and Automated Meta-Analysis of Biocatalysis Data.

Realizing the Continuous Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Anilines Using an Immobilized Nitroreductase (2023)
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Cosgrove, S. C., Miller, G. J., Bornadel, A., & Dominguez, B. (2023). Realizing the Continuous Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Anilines Using an Immobilized Nitroreductase. ACS sustainable chemistry & engineering, 11(23), 8556-8561. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.3c01204

The use of biocatalysis for classically synthetic transformations has seen an increase in recent years, driven by the sustainability credentials bio-based approaches can offer the chemical industry. Despite this, the biocatalytic reduction of aromati... Read More about Realizing the Continuous Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Anilines Using an Immobilized Nitroreductase.

One-Pot Chemoenzymatic Cascade for the Enantioselective C(1)-Allylation of Tetrahydroisoquinolines (2023)
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Sangster, J. J., Ruscoe, R. E., Cosgrove, S. C., Mangas-Sánchez, J., & Turner, N. J. (2023). One-Pot Chemoenzymatic Cascade for the Enantioselective C(1)-Allylation of Tetrahydroisoquinolines. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 145(8), 4431-4437. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.2c09176

Herein, we report a one-pot, chemoenzymatic process for the synthesis of enantioenriched C(1)-allylated tetrahydroisoquinolines. This transformation couples a monoamine oxidase (MAO-N)-catalyzed oxidation with a metal catalyzed allylboration, followe... Read More about One-Pot Chemoenzymatic Cascade for the Enantioselective C(1)-Allylation of Tetrahydroisoquinolines.

Biocatalytic Approaches to Building Blocks for Enzymatic and Chemical Glycan Synthesis (2022)
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Cosgrove, Miller, & Dolan. (2022). Biocatalytic Approaches to Building Blocks for Enzymatic and Chemical Glycan Synthesis. JACS Au, 47-61. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacsau.2c00529

While the field of biocatalysis has bloomed over the past 20–30 years, advances in the understanding and improvement of carbohydrate-active enzymes, in particular, the sugar nucleotides involved in glycan building block biosynthesis, have progressed... Read More about Biocatalytic Approaches to Building Blocks for Enzymatic and Chemical Glycan Synthesis.