Enantioselective Epoxidation of Alkenes by Chloroperoxidase and the Development of a Chloroperoxidase Expression System
Allain, Eric Joseph
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Title
Enantioselective Epoxidation of Alkenes by Chloroperoxidase and the Development of a Chloroperoxidase Expression System
Author(s)
Allain, Eric Joseph
Issue Date
1997
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Hager, Lowell P.
Department of Study
Biochemistry
Discipline
Biochemistry
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Chemistry, Organic
Language
eng
Abstract
Chloroperoxidase from Caldariomyces fumago has the characteristics of a promising industrial catalyst. Chloroperoxidase is inexpensive to produce and relatively stable and able to catalyze a large number of potentially useful reactions. However, the majority of the reactions studied occur with a lack of any enzyme induced stereoselectivity. Chloroperoxidase, in this report, is shown to catalyze the epoxidation reaction of a number of alkenes in a highly enantioselective manner with enantiomeric excesses between 50% and 97%. Good substrates were generally non-polar cis-alkenes of less than nine carbons in length. Unsubstituted terminal alkenes were shown to inactivate the enzyme. The recent determination of the three dimensional structure by x-ray crystallography and ongoing research in the development of an expression system for chloroperoxidase could open the door for a number of experiments concerning the mechanism of the epoxidation reaction. Also the possibility of improving the utility of chloroperoxidase in asymmetric epoxidations through directed evolution and site-directed mutagenesis remains an exciting prospect for the future.
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